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Case E contains the following select bronzes : — 
1. A figure of a Satyr springing forward. The attitude is very 
similar to that of the male figure in a group thought to represent 
Marsyas and Athena. (Archaol. Zeitung, L874, pi. 8). — Greece. 
2. Silenos standing on a triangular base, and bearing on his head a 
basket which has been surmounted by a floral ornament. 
3. Winged head, probably of Hypnos. the god of sleep. A most 
beautiful example of sculpture in bronze, found at Perugia, and 
engraved in the Monumenti of the Koman Institute, 1856, pi. iii. 
4. Iconic head, life-size, found at Cyrene, under the pavement of 
the temple of Apollo. The eyes have been enamelled. The type of 
face seems that of an African. (Smith and Porcher, Discoveries at 
Cyrene, pi. lxvi.) 
5 . Head, life-size, probably of a poet, brought from Constantinople 
in the beginning of the 17th century. (Museum Marbles, Pt. II., 
pi. xxxix.) 
6. Venus arranging her tresses. — Pourtales. 
7. Mercury, on its original base inlaid with silver. Eound the 
neck is the Gaulish tore in gold. This figure was found in France ; 
(Specimens of Antient Sculpture, I., pi. xxxiii.) — Payne Knight. 
8. Hercules, found at Bavay in France. (Specimens of Antient 
Sculpture, II., pi. xxxiii.) Presented by Mr. E. Drummond Hay. 
9. Jupiter, found at Paramythia, in Northern Greece. — Payne 
Knight. (Specimens of Antient Sculpture, I., pi. xxxii.) 
10. Jupiter, found in Hungary. — Pourtales. 
11. Mask of Mercury. — Payne Knight. (Specimens of Antient 
Sculpture, I., pi. xviii.) 
12. Jupiter, found at Paramythia. (Specimens of Antient Sculpture, 
I., pi. Iii.) — Payne Knight. 
13. Apollo bending his bow. Found at Paramythia. (Specimens 
of Antient Sculpture, L, pi. xliii.) — Payne Knight. 
14. Silver boy playing with a goose. Found at Alexandria, with a 
number of silver coins of the earlier Ptolemies. 
15. Lamp, in the form of a greyhound's head. The spout is 
formed by a hare's head, held in the greyhound's mouth. Found at 
Nocera, in Italy. 
16. A boy playing at the game of mora, perhaps, from a group 
representing Ganymedes playing with Eros ; said to have been found 
at Foggia, in Southern Italy. 
Table Case D contains a number of select bronzes, among which 
may be noticed the bronzes of Siris— two shoulder-pieces of Greek 
armour found in Magna Grsecia, and ornamented with groups in relief 
in the finest style ; a youthful heroic figure seated, found at Tarentum, 
and in the finest style ; a bronze mirror in a highly ornamented frame 
of unusual size, found at Locri; a mirror, on which is engraved the 
meeting of Helen and Menelaus at the taking of Troy ; a group of 
Boreas and Oreithyia, from a tomb in the island of Calymnos ; an 
iron sword in bronze scabbard, with relief representing an Emperor, 
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