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GREEK ANTIQUITIES. 
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some rare and curious pieces of amber, carved in an archaic style. 
On the next shelf several minor specimens of fresco, some ivory and 
bone carvings, and some calcined remains of corn and fruit, exhumed 
at Pompeii. Below these a collection of red earthenware vases from 
Sicily, of a late period ; a variety of small glazed terracotta vases and 
figures. 
FIRST VASE EOOM. 
This room and part of the next contain the collection of 
Painted Fictile Yases which have been discovered in tombs in 
Italy, Greece, the adjacent islands, and other parts of the 
Mediterranean, and which for the most part are of Greek 
fabric, though the obsolete name Etruscan is still erroneously 
applied to them in England. Nearly all of them have been 
found in tombs, but they are very similar in form and fabric 
to those actually used in the ancient Greek household. The 
subjects with which these vases are decorated are for the most 
part derived from the divine or heroic legends of the Greeks, 
while others seem to be simply scenes from real life. 
The Collection in this room is arranged for the most part 
in chronological order, commencing with the North and 
East sides of the room. The approximate dates under which 
the successive classes may be arranged are given on the large 
labels over the Wall Cases. The finest specimens are placed 
in or upon the detached Cases. 
Class I. Cases 1-12. Table Case B. Vases of Archaic style (b.c. 
700-b.c. 500). 
Cases 1-5. Vases of the earliest style, chiefly from Athens, Corinth, 
and Melos, ornamented with geometrical patterns, perhaps imitations 
of wicker work. 
Cases 0-10. Vases from Camirus, in Rhodes, with geometrical pat- 
terns, or with men and animals, many of which belong to the style 
called by some Nolan-Egyptian, by others Phoenician, and which may 
perhaps be most correctly described as Greco-Phcenician. 
Table Case B. Terracotta coffin and select vases from Camirus. 
Cases LI, J 2. Vases of the Archaic style from Italy. 
Class U. Cases 13-30. Detached Cases C, G, K, and O. Vases, 
chiefly from Italy, of the transition period (b.c. 500 — B.C. 440), in 
which greater mastery in drawing the figure is attained and more com- 
plicated groups are attempted. The figures are drawn in black, white, 
and crimson, on a red ground. 
The finest specimens of this style are the Hydricc, or water-jugs 
I 1.7 2 I, Shelves 3, 4), and the Amphora in the detached Cases 
on the I '/ 1 i, idc of the room. The subjects relate chiefly to heroic 
