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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[BRONZE 
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 
Cases 29, 30. Shelf 1. Ancient vases from Corfu ( Corey ra), con- 
sisting of three amphorae, and five oenochose or jugs; found in an exca- 
vation at Castrades, close to the ancient sepulchres of Menecrates and 
Tlasias, of the 5th century, b.c. These are probably some of the 
celebrated amphorae which contained the wines exported by Corcyra 
from the Adriatic. Presented by the Ionian University , 1846. 
Shelves 2 — 4. Vases of most ancient style found at Athens, of 
various shapes, ornamented with birds, animals, maeanders, and geo- 
metrical and architectural patterns. No. 2557— 2558, Among them 
is a stand for a vase, the body of a chariot. No. 2583. 
Cases 31, 32. Shelves 1 — 4. Vases of ancient style, from Athens, 
decorated with maeanders, and other ornaments in brown, upon a 
fawn-coloured ground ; imitation of basket-work and other ornaments, 
birds, stags, &c. ; among them will be seen a remarkable vase, sur- 
mounted by two horses. No. 2539. 
Cases 33, 34. Ancient vases from Athens, Greece, and the Ar- 
chipelago, (chiefly from a collection made by Thomas Burgon, 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 (No. 2923), decorated with Cupids 
and other figures, in white and blue, and a small oenochoe, on which, 
in white, is a boy crawling on the ground towards a low stool, on 
which is an apple. No. 2933. A globular vase, with a triclinium, 
containing human bones found in a sepulchre at the Piraeus. No. 
2935. 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, some perhaps contemporaneous with the age of Pericles, B.c. 430, 
with figures traced in brown, red, and black outline, on a white back- 
ground. One of the finest of these (No. 2847) represents Electra and 
her maids at the tomb of Agamemnon, with colours in blue, crimson, 
purple, and green. The subjects of others are principally taken from 
the Oresteia of the Athenian tragic writers, representing Orestes and 
Electra 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 erotola; the son of Creon de- 
voured by the sphinx ; Bellerophon, mounted upon horseback, destroy- 
ing the Chimaera ; Perseus on horseback, killing the gorgon Medusa * 
and the interview of the poet Alcaeus and Sappho. 
Shelf 3. No. 291 1 . A remarkable vase, with a painted cover, coloured 
white, with the fore parts of three gilded gryphons at the sides, contain- 
ing bones ; a small silver Athenian obolos, 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- 
ragonite, from Syra; arragonite patera, and small naked figure of a 
female, supposed to be of the earliest Greek art, from Syra. Terracotta 
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. 
