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myths and personages, and especially those of the Homeric poems and 
Epic Cycle generally. 
Case 0, on the West side of the room, contains Panatheniaic 
Amphorae of this class, with inscriptions which show that they were 
given as prizes in the games at Athens. 
Class III. Cases 31-35, 41-54, and Cases L, M, N, Vases of 
the finest period (b.c. 440— b.c. 330), with red figures on a black 
ground. They are unrivalled for beauty of shape and drawing, and 
the lustre of the black varnish. The vases on Table Case I., of the 
same period, are especially worthy of observation. 
Cases 31-35. Vases from Camirus, Rhodes. 
Cases 36-40 interrupt the chronological sequence. They contain a 
number of vases of various styles from Sicily, of which the most 
remarkable are the lekytM, painted in several colours on a white or 
cream-coloured ground (Case 36). On the floor of these Cases are 
vases from Camirus, belonging to Class II. 
Cases 41-45. Vases, chiefly from Nola, in Campania. 
Cases 55-60 contain the later Athenian vases, the finest of which 
are the vases belonging to Class III. (Cases 55, 56, Shelf 4), and the 
lekythi, with polychrome figures on a white ground. (Cases 57, 58.) 
Table Case A contains black and red ware of Etruscan origin, most 
of which may be attributed to the Archaic period. 
In Table Cases H and I are a number of vases and other antiquities 
recently discovered at Camirus. They are not yet arranged. 
In the Guide to the First Vase Room, now on sale in this 
Room, will be found a description of the vases most remark- 
able either for interest of subject or beauty of style. These 
select specimens are distinguished in the Collection by blue 
labels corresponding with the numbers in the Guide. 
Over Cases 41-60 are painted fac-similes, by Signor Campanari, of 
the walls of an Etruscan tomb at Tarquinii, decorated with a double 
frieze ; in the lower are represented dances and entertaiument3, and in 
the upper, athletic games, as leaping, running, chariot-racing, hurling the 
discus, boxing, and the armed course ; above is a large vase and two 
persons at an entertainment. The side of entrance of this tomb, 
decorated with two panthers, is represented above the Cases 31-40, and 
the roof, which is chequered, over Cases 1 1-30. 
SECOND VASE ROOM. 
This room contains the later Greek Fictile Va^es, the Greek 
and Roman Terracottas, the Greek and Roman Glass and 
Porcelain, the Giwk and Roman Mural Paintings, and a 
number of miscellaneous antiquities in ivory, bone, wood, 
alabaster, stucco, and other materials. 
