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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[bronze 
Cases 33, 34. Ancient vases from Athens, Greece, and the Ar- 
chipelago, (chiefly from a collection made by Thomas Burg on, Esq.,) 
in both styles, with red figures on a black ground, and black figures on 
a red ground ; among them are several lecythi. The most remarkable 
vases in this case are, a small pyxis, decorated with Cupids and other 
figures, in white and blue, and a small cenochoe, on which, in white, 
is a boy crawling on the ground towards a low T stool, on which is an 
apple. A globular vase, with a triclinium, containing human bones 
found in a sepulchre at the Piraeus. A vase of the same shape is seen 
close to the triclinium. _ . . . 
Cases 35, 36. Shelves 1, 2. Lecythi of the finest epoch of Athenian 
art, probably contemporaneous with the age of Pericles, B. c. 430, with 
fio-ures traced in brown, red, and black outline, on a white back- 
ground. One of the finest of these (No. 2847) represents Eiectra and 
her maids at the tomb of Agamemnon, with colours m blu.e, crimson, 
purple, and green. The subjects of others are principally taken from 
the Oresteia of the Athenian tragic writers, representing Orestes and 
Eiectra at the tomb of Agamemnon. Glass vases from Athens ; others 
in opaque glass from Melos. Terracottas in bas-relief, from Melos, 
representing a bacchante playing on crotola; the son of Creon de- 
voured bv the sphinx ; Bellerophon, mounted upon horseback, destroy- 
ing the Chimsera; Perseus on horseback, killing the gorgon Medusa; 
and the poet Alcaeus meeting Sappho. 
Shelf 3. A remarkable vase, with a painted cover, coloured white, 
with the fore parts of three gilded gryphons at the sides, containing 
bones; a small silver Athenian oboios, which still adheres to the jaw, 
and which was placed in the* mouth to pay the fare over the Styx, is 
exhibited with it. Pyxides, or unguent boxes, for the toilet, of ar- 
rao’onite, from Syra; arragonite patera, and small naked figure of a 
female, supposed to be of the earliest Greek art, from Syra. Tenacotta 
lamps ; and a neurospaston, or terracotta doll. 
Case 37. Shelf 1. Terracotta aryballoi, on which, in bas-relief, 
are Scylla, Patera, scalloped pattern. Presented by Dr. Hogg. 
Shelf 2. Various terracotta figures ; chiefly from Athens. Among 
the most remarkable are— a comic actor in the character of Hercules ; 
Silenus and Bacchus ; Hydriophorae, or Athenian ladies bearing water 
vessels on their heads ; Demeter or Ceres, seated ; a group, with two 
females, one dancing, the other playing on a tambourin, from Athens ; 
the Muse Polyhymnia. 
Shelf 3. Animals, stools, &c., in terracotta. 
Shelf 4. Rhyton, in shape of a ram’s head ; muses and dancers, m 
terracotta. From the south of Italy. 
Cases 38—41. Not yet finally arranged. Five leaden vases from 
Delos, containing human bones. 
Cases 42, 43. Shelf 1. Spear heads, in bronze. 
Shelf 2. Similar spear heads ; some of them of iron. From the 
sepulchres of Etruria. 
Shelf 3. Swords of bronze, chiefly of the Roman epoch, the 
caps at the end of scabbards, and bronze arrow heads. 
Shelf 4. Standard, two Roman eagles ; standards for a legion, a 
boar and other standards. . 
Cases 44, 45. Helmets, chiefly in shape of the pilos, or mariner s 
