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GREEK ANTIQUITIES. 
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from Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, and Rome. 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 Eome. — 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 Cnidus, 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 tessera, tickets for the theatre, dice ; a lyre and 
two flutes made of sycamore, found in a tomb at Athens ; 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. 
Salzmann and Mr. Vice-Consul Biliotti in tombs at Camirus, 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 Camirus in Rhodes, Dali in Cyprus, the Greek islands 
and mainland, and Sicily. Some of these appear to be Phoenician, 
others of the Grseco-Phoenician period. 
Table Case K. Archaic Greek terracotta masks and reliefs from 
Camirus, Melos, and Italy. 
Table Case L. A collection of terracotta heads and figures from 
Dali in Cyprus, presented by their discoverer, D. E. Colnaghi, 
Esq., H. M. Consul, Florence. 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 0. Lamps, plates, and other vases in moulded black ware. 
Cases 32-41, at the South end of the room, contain a series of 
Grasco-Roman terracotta reliefs, chiefly from the Townley 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 
Groeco- Roman style. On the West side of the room, Cases 44-51 
contain terracottas from Athens, Rhodes, Melos, the Cyrenaica, Sicily, 
Sardinia, Cyprus, and other parts of the Greek world. The most 
