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3. Vase of glazed ware in the form of a goose. — Tanagra. 
Cases 24-31 contain some interesting specimens of mural paintings 
from Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, and Eome. Most of these are 
from the Temple and Blacas Collections. Among them may be par- 
ticularly mentioned the head of a youthful flute-player — perhaps 
Olympus — from a tomb near Rome. — Presented by Sir M. White 
Ridley. 
The Table Cases contain a variety of antiquities, which 
are arranged as follows : — 
Table Case A. A collection of objects in lead, including some 
tablets inscribed with imprecations, found at Knidos, and a number of 
inscribed sling bolts. In the same case is exhibited an interesting 
series of objects in amber, some of which are of an Archaic 
period. 
Table Case C. A collection of plates, rhytons, and vases for the 
toilet, moulded in the form of animals and human figures. 
Table Case D. A collection of objects in bone and ivory, such as 
caskets, gladiatorial tesserce, tickets for the theatre, dice ; a lyre and 
two flutes made of sycamore, found in a tomb near Athens, on the 
road to Eleusis ; a flageolet of bone and bronze, found in a tomb at 
Halicarnassus ; fragments of wooden furniture from a tomb at Kertch. 
Table Case E. An extensive and interesting series of Greek, 
Roman, and Byzantine weights and steelyards, collected by Mr. 
Burgon, Mr. Woodhouse of Corfu, and others. 
Table Case G. A number of small figures, vases, and other objects, 
in glass, porcelain, ivory, bone, and other materials, discovered by Mr. 
Saizmann and Mr. Vice-Consul Biliotti in tombs at Kameiros,in Rhodes. 
Most of these objects probably belong to the Grseco-Phoenician period. 
Table Case H. Various small figures in marble, stone, and terra- 
cotta, from Kameiros in Rhodes, the Greek islands and mainland, and 
Sicily. Some of these appear to be Phoenician, others of the Grseco- 
Phcenician period. 
Table Case K. Archaic Greek terracotta masks, toys, and reliefs 
from Kameiros, Melos, and Italy. 
Table Case L. A collection of terracotta heads and figures from 
Dali (Idalium) in Cyprus, presented by their discoverer, D. E. 
Colnaghi, Esq., H. M. Consul, Florence. A series of terracottas ob- 
tained from Centuripae, in Sicily, by Mr. Consul Dennis. Fragments 
of terracotta figures, some of which are of great beauty, found on the 
site of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. 
Table Case M. Terracotta moulds and masks, chiefly from Italy. 
Table Case O. Lamps, plates, and other vases in moulded black ware. 
Cases 32-41, at the South end of the room, contain a series of 
Groeco-Rornan terracotta reliefs, chiefly from the Towneley Collection. 
They originally decorated the walls of Roman buildings, and present 
an interesting variety of mythological subjects. The figures are 
generally well composed and modelled. 
Cases 42, 43, contain several large terracotta figures of the same 
