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Apollo bending his bow. Found at Paramjtbia. (Specimens 
of Antient Sculpture, I., pi. xliii.) — Payne Knight, 
15. Silver boy playing with a goose. Found at Alexandria, with a 
number of silver coins of the earlier Ptolemies. 
16. 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. 
17. A boy playing at the game of morra^ 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 Graecia, and ornamented with groups in relief 
in the finest style ; 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 ; figures 
and animals in relief, embossed in silver, and forming part of the 
ornament of an Etruscan chariot, found at Perugia ; a hare inscribed 
with a very ancient dedication to Apollo ; a bronze plate from Elis, 
inscribed with a treaty between two tribes; two decrees of the people 
of Corcyra ; an iron sword in bronze scabbard, with relief representing 
an Emperor, probably Tiberius, receiving a victorious general, probably 
Germanicus. Found at Mayence, 1848. Presented by Mr. Felix 
Slade. 
Table Case C contains Etruscan mirrors, on which various mytho- 
logical subjects are engraved. Case A contains armlets, fibulae, and 
various personal ornaments and trappings. Case F, locks, keys, and 
a variety of small implements. 
A circular case towards the North-East end of the Koom contains 
a number of objects in silver. Among them is a silver bucket, on 
which is a frieze, in relief, representing the four Seasons. Found near 
Vienne, in France. (Annali of the Eoman Institute, 1852. Tav. 
d'Agg., L.) _ 
In the circular case opposite are specimens of bronze armour, 
among which may be noticed the cuirass, from the Temple Collection. 
C. T. NEWTON. 
BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ROOM. 
This room contains three collections : — the British, consisting 
of Antiquities found in Great Britain and Ireland, extending 
from the earliest periods to the Norman Conquest, the Early 
Christian, and the Medieval, comprising all remains of the 
Middle Ages, both English and Foreign. 
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