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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[bronze 
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 crotala; the son of Creon de¬ 
voured by the sphinx ; Bellerophon, mounted upon horseback, destro) - 
ing the Chimssra; Perseus on horseback, killing the gorgon Medusa; 
and the interview of the poet Alcaeus and 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 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. No. 2911. 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. 
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—39. Div. 1,2. A collection of 333 handles of ancient 
amphorae or wine casks, in terracotta, inscribed with the name of the 
principal magistrate of Rhodes, and with those of the months of the 
Doric calendar, or with the name of the city of Cnidus in Caria, and 
other names of places and magistrates; chiefly found at Alexandria in 
Egypt. Similar objects have been found in Sicily, at Kertch, Athens, 
and in Lycia, and prove the extensive commerce of Rhodes. Pre- 
sented by J. L. Stoddart, Esq. 
Cases 40. 41. Shelf 1. Vases and other objects in terra cotta. 
Shelf 2. Lecythi, in shape of the goddess and female forms of 
Egyptian type, objects in the shape of ostrichs’ eggs, painted with 
figures and other subjects. From Polledrara in Etruria. 
Shelf 3. Various portions of large bronze statues: amongst them 
the staff of iEsculapius, entwined with a serpent. 
Shelf 4. Bronze group of Hercules—Chiron and iEsculapius: two 
figures, apparently of a Ptolemy, in the character of the genius of 
Alexandria, and his Queen, as Fortune; two figures of Hercules, 
and a singular archaic figure, on a conical base, ornamented with 
animals from Polledrara. 
