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Shelf 2. Various terracotta figures; chiefly from Athens. Among 
the most remarkable are — a comic actor in the character of Hercules ; 
Silenus and Bacchus ; Hydriophorse, 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, in 
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 
cap. One dedicated by Hiero I. to Jupiter Olympius, on the occa- 
sion of his naval victory over the Tuscans, at Cumse, in the 3rd year 
of the 76th Olympiad, b.c. 474. Found at Olympia. 
Cases 46 — 51. Steel yards ; weights, many of them in the shape of 
busts ; bells ; sacrificial knives ; hatchet heads of bronze ; three cistas, 
one commonly known as the Townleian cista, found at Preeneste ; en- 
graved with the subject of the sacrifice of Polyxena, and divinities; 
another with two comic actors standing, one holding a lamp, in full re- 
lief, on the cover. Presented by S . Campanari. 
A smaller cista, with three figures on the cover representing Hercules 
as an infant, attacked by two snakes, and lamenting ; similar cistas were 
used to hold the strigils, or combs, lecythi, or oil vases, and paint 
vases, used for the bath or the toilet. Bronze tripodial hearth, l<r%Kgtov, 
or foculus, found at Cervetri or Caere, with the charcoal still on it ; with 
this are a pair of tongs, a wheel, and a cyathus, or scraper for the ashes 
— creagra, or vzpyrcoPokov, instruments used in cookery to take boiled 
meat out of the cauldron, or move the entrails ; tripods, three Roman, 
one ornamented with sphinxes and other ornaments ; another of archaic 
style, found at Caere or Cervetri, with Hercules : Boreas carrying away 
Oreithyia ; the upper part of a tripod, spherical, and consequently 
votive or decorative, with tridents and heads of hippocampi ; various 
fragments and parts of furniture. 
Cases 52, 53. Candelabra from the Etruscan sepulchres ; these 
candelabra (\v%n~oi) were renowned throughout Greece, and imported 
to Athens ; the tops of some surmounted with small figures ; others with 
the body formed by a figure : one of the smaller ones has the pin for 
the lamp, which terminates in the anterior part of a Gryphon ; on one 
from Vulci or Canino is Peleus seizing Thetis, who endeavours to 
escape by changing herself into a snake ; others, with Athletae holding 
strigils, halteres, or leaping dumb-bells; Jupiter and Juno standing, 
and a warrior, with a shield, on which is engraved the head of Fear. 
To these are attached the vases by which liquids have been taken out 
of jars and cauldrons. 
