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called by some Nolan-Egyptian, by others Phoenician, and which may 
perhaps be most correctly described as Grseco-Phcenician. 
Table Case B. Terracotta coffin and select vases from Camirus. 
Cases 11, 12. Vases of the Archaic style from Ialysos in Rhodes. 
Presented by Professor J. RusJcin. 
Class II. Cases 13-30. Detached Cases C-H, 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 hydria, or water-jugs 
(Cases 17-24, Shelves 3, 4), and the amphora in the detached Cases 
on the East side of the room. The subjects relate chiefly to heroic 
myths and personages, and especially those of the Homeric poems and 
Epic Cycle generally. 
Case 0, on the West side of the room, contains Panathenaic 
amphora of this class, with inscriptions which show that they were 
given as prizes in the games at Athens. 
Class III. Cases 36-54, and Cases I, L, M, N, Q. 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 31-36. Vases from Camirus, Rhodes. 
Cases 37-45. Vases, chiefly from Nola, in Campania. 
Cases 55-56 contain a number of vases of various styles from 
Sicily, of which the most remarkable are the lekythi, painted in 
several colours on a white or cream-coloured ground (Case 55). Cases 
57-60 contain Athenian vases, the finest of which are the vases 
belonging to Class III. (Cases 57-8, Shelf 4), and the lekythi with 
polychrome figures on a white ground (Cases 59-60). A selection of 
the finest Athenian lekythi with polychrome figures on a white ground, 
will be found on Table-cases C, M, E, and Q, and a selection of 
rhytons on Table Case F. 
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 Sign or Campanari, of 
the walls of an Etruscan tomb at Tarquinii, decorated with a double 
frieze ; in the lower are represented dances and entertainments, 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 sides of the entrance of this tomb, 
decorated with two panthers, are represented above the Cases 31-40 
and the roof, which is chequered, over Cases 11-30. 
