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Cases 20, 21. Shelf 1. Sepulchral vases, similar to those in Cases 
12, 13. Pottery . 
Shelf 2. Small sepulchral tablets, with inscriptions. 
Shelves 3, 4. Sepulchral cones of brick, stamped with inscriptions, in 
bas-relief. They contain the names and titles of the functionaries in 
whose times they were deposited. These have been supposed to be 
stamps or seals—but appear to be rather votive objects deposited with 
the dead. 
Cases 22, 23. Shelf 2. Inscriptions in enchorial and Greek lan¬ 
guages on fragments of pottery, chiefly receipts, under the early em¬ 
perors. From Flephantina. 
Shelf 3. Fragments of pottery, with inscriptions in hieratic and 
Coptic. 
Shelf 4. Inscriptions in Greek and Coptic on fragments of calcareous 
stone and pottery. They are principally religious, and of the Christian 
period. 
Cases 24—27. Large Egyptian vases, in terracotta; one re¬ 
markable for being covered with a demotic inscription. 
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Cases 29, 30. Shelf 1. Ancient vases from Corfu ( Corcyra), con¬ 
sisting of three amphorae, and five oenochoae 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 w 7 hich contained the wnnes 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-w 7 ork 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 cenochbe, 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, w 7 ith colours in blue, crimson, 
purple, and green. The subjects of others are principally taken from 
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