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Payne Knight collections, to which additions have been made 
from time to time by presentation or purchase. 
The Collection is arranged as far as possible in chronolo- 
gical order. The bronzes in the Western half of the room 
are chiefly Etruscan, and of the Archaic period. Those in the 
Eastern half are mostly Roman, or GraBco-Roman. 
Cases 1-4 contain a number of bronzes of the Archaic period, prin- 
cipally from Etruria, among which may be particularly noticed a 
Hercules from the lake of Falterona, a recumbent male figure, probably 
from an Etruscan bronze sarcophagus, and a mirror from Attica, the 
handle of which is formed by a figure of Venus. 
Cases 5-1 1 contain a number of bronzes, fictile vases, a marble figure, 
and other antiquities, from Polledrara, near Vulci. 
Among these antiquities are several porcelain vases, ornamented 
with pseudo-Egyptian hieroglyphics, which are probably imported into 
Etruria through Phoenician commerce. In Case 9 an Etruscan 
figure found at Sessa on the Volturno in Italy, a most ancient and 
interesting specimen of casting in bronze, is temporarily placed. 
Cases 12-19 contain a number of pieces of Etruscan, Greek, and 
Roman armour, and some Etruscan candelabra. 
Cases 20-23 contain two Etruscan tripods, and some Greek and 
Etruscan vases and handles of vases. Among these may be particularly 
noticed a krater and an amphora, recently purchased at the Pourtales 
sale, which are placed on the upper shelf, Cases 21-23. 
Cases 24-30 contain Greek and Etruscan vases, engraved cistae, 
mirror handles, and other objects. In Case 30 is an Etruscan male 
figure, found at Falterona. 
Cases 31-53 contain figures mostly Roman or Graeco-Roman. A 
selection of the finest of these occupy Cases 42-49, in the centre of the 
East side of the room, the remainder are arranged in mythological 
classes. Among the select bronzes in the central Cases may be parti- 
cularly noticed, a male head found at Cyrene, and a head probably of a 
Greek poet, both life size ; two Jupiters, found at Paramythia, and a 
Jupiter found in Hungary, formerly in the Pourtales Collection. 
Cases 54-60 contain Roman candelabra, lamps, and other antiquities, 
among which may be particularly mentioned a bronze lamp found at 
Paris, ornamented with dolphins, lions, and satyric masks (Case 56), 
and a Roman seat inlaid with silver. 
On the Table Cases B and E are the following select bronzes : Case 
B. An Etruscan bronze vase witli an engraved frieze round the upper 
part of the body, and with figures of Amazons round the rim ; an 
Apollo ; a Bacchus ; the celebrated Mercury, from the Payne Knight 
Collection, found in France ; the helmet, from Olvmpia, dedicated by 
Hiero, the first king of Syracuse, after his naval victory over the 
Etruscans, B.C. 472 ; and two other helmets, one from Cannffi, the other 
dedicated at Olvmpia by the Argives. On Case E is a Hercules, found 
