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SECOND VASE ROOM. 
Shelf 2. Vases with red figures on a black ground ; among which 
should be noticed a pyxis, No. 2923, decorated with cupids and other 
figures in white and blue; and a small cenochoe. No. 2933, on which is 
a crawling boy. Both these are from Mr. B argon's collection. 
Cases 52, 53. Shelf 1. Vases, with black ornaments on a white 
ground. 
Shelves 2 and 3. Polychrome vases of the finest period of Greek 
art; with figures traced in various colours on a white ground. Some 
of them have the draperies in blue, crimson, puipie, and green. The 
subjects of these vases are principally taken from the Oresteid of the 
Athenian tragic writers, representing Orestes and Eiectra at the tomb 
of Agamemnon. 
Cases 54, 55. Shelves 1, 2. Vases, principally lekythi, with black 
subjects on red ground. 
Shelf 3. Vases of a more ancient style from Athens and Corinth, 
ornamented with birds, &c., in a reddish-brown colour on a fawn-co¬ 
loured ground. 
Cases 56 —60. Vases of the most ancient style, ornamented with 
meanders and geometrical patterns. In Case 60 are eight vases from 
Corfu ( Corcyra), found in an excavation at Castrades, near the ancient 
sepulchres of Menecrates and Tlasias, of the fifth 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. 
Vases with representations on both sides, chiefly with black figures, 
are exhibited in glass cases in the centre of the room. 
Over Cases 36—55 are painted fac-similes, by S. Campanari, of the 
walls of an Etruscan tomb at Tarquinii, in two divisions; in the lower 
are represented dances and entertainments, and in the upper athletic 
games, as leaping, running, chariot races, hurling the discus, boxing, and 
the armed course ; above is a large vase and two persons at an enter¬ 
tainment. The entrance of this tomb, decorated with two panthers, 
is above the Cases 18—29, 32—33. 
Over Cases 6—26, a painting in fac-simile of another tomb at 
Tarquinii, representing an entertainment. In the centre, one of the 
pages holds in his hand a percolated vase or wine-strainer. At the 
sides are male and female dancers surrounded by trees and animals; 
above is the chequered ceiling of the same tomb. 
Over Cases 1 — 4, 57—;59, are paintings from another tomb at 
Corneto; that above 1—4, represents a female paying the last 
offices to an old man stretched out on a bier; that above 57 — 60, two 
men drinking and dancing. Close to these are the ends of the same 
tomb, with men drinking and playing on the double flute. 
SECOND VASE ROOM. 
The Painted Vases in this Room are of a later style of Greek art 
(about 350—200 b.c.), chiefly found in Apulia and Lucania and the 
