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ancient armour representing Cupid holding a water fowl. Terra cotta 
antefix, with the head of the Medusa; covers of pyxides, with the 
subjects of Scylla, and Cupid and Psyche. 
Case 89. Fourteen statues of Harpocrates, wearing the Egyptian 
pschent, and holding a comucopiae, and some accompanied by the 
jackal and hawk; Pan; two figures of Bacchus, and a head of the 
same divinity ; two busts of Ariadne, or of a Bacchante. 
Case 90. Three figures and two terminal ones of Dionysos; Sile- 
nus; the same, kneeling on a wine skin ; two lamps of Silenus siding 
on the same; the same, in a cloak ; part of a foot of furniture ; three 
figures of the Silenus, Marsyas, or Comos, playing on the double flute; 
one of exquisite execution; the other with a crown of ivy berries, set 
in garnets, the eyes of silver; four Satyrs; Pan, with goat’s legs; 
five figures of Silenus, with the pointed head-dress; terminal female 
Satyr; boy gathering fruit; two Satyrs; Cupid on a ram’s head; Her¬ 
cules strangling the Nemean lion ; frightening the Stymphalian birds. 
Case 91. Fourteen figures, Hercules subduing the Maenalian stag, 
reposing, and his weapons seized by Cupid; holding a cup, or the 
apples of the Hesperides; Pan with goat’s legs, and the pedum and 
syrinx. 
Case 92. Eight mirrors, from Athens; mirror, elegant bronze 
cylix, and patera, astragali; knuckle bones of a small goat or sheep, par¬ 
ticularly prized by the ancients; part of an iron strigil, all from Ithaca; 
ancient bronze plate, on which is an inscription ; a treaty between two 
of the tribes of the region of Elis, about the XL Olympiad b.c., found 
near Elis. From the collection of R. P. Knight , Esq. Pair of 
bronze drop earrings, from a tomb at Same in Cephallenia; bronze 
astragalus from Cephallenia; four glass astragali, and an ancient 
terracotta impression of a coin of Larissa, found at Leucas in Arca¬ 
dia ; strigil, from Melos, and a conical and pyramidal terracotta object 
from Castrades in Corcyra; seven leaden sling bullets found at 
Saguntum. 
Case 93. Part of a lyre, and two flutes of wood, found in a tomb 
near Athens; gilt myrtle crown of lead and terracotta, from the same 
place; glass mosaic tesserae from the ceiling of the Parthenon, when a 
Greek church, before the taking of Athens by the Turks; leaden sling 
bullets. 
Case 94. Three iron strigils, and parts of others found at Athens ; 
iron knife from the same place, and a pair of iron fetters found in a 
cell behind the Pnyx ; bronze lecythus; arrow heads; leaden sling 
bullets; a cramp ; circular ornaments, perhaps weights for the dress; 
little jar to hold the celebrated Lycian eye ointment, with the name of 
the physician, Paramousaeus; series of lead weights called market 
weights, and as heavy as a mna ; the mna, with dolphins, tetarton or 
quarter mna, marked with tortoises, and the hemitetarton or half 
quarter with half tortoises; smaller divisions with crescent; conical 
terracotta ornaments, and one of the bronze tickets delivered to a 
judge; pecten shell found in a tomb at the Piraeus. 
Case 95. An Erinnys or Fury; thirteen figures of Hercules in 
various attitudes; a terminal Hercules; the same subduing the Ache- 
lous; two Sirens; two Sphinxes; a dwarf, one of the Lares holding 
a cup and cornucopiae; Philoctetes; two figures of Victory and one 
of Fortune. 
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