250 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [BRONZE 
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 crotola; the son of Creon de¬ 
voured by the sphinx ; Bellerophon, mounted upon horseback, destroy¬ 
ing the Chimaera; Perseus on horseback, killing the gorgon Medusa; 
and the interview of the poet Alcseus and Sappho. 
Shelf3. No. 2911. A remarkable vase, with a painted cover, coloured 
white, with the fore parts of three gilded gryphons at the sides, contain¬ 
ing 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. 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 ; Hydriophorae, 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. 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 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 Cumae, 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 Praeneste ; 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 
