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whose times they were deposited. These objects have been supposed 
to be stamps or seals—but appear to be rather votive deposited with 
the dead. 
Cases 24—28. Large Egyptian vases, in terracotta; one re¬ 
markable for being covered with a demotic inscription. 
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 
Cases 29, 30. Shelf 1. Ancient vases from Corcyra, consisting 
of three amphorae, and five cenochoae or jugs ; found in an excavation 
at Castrades, close to the ancient sepulchres of Menecrates and 
Tlasias, of the 5th century, u.c. These are probably some of the 
celebrated amphorae which contained the wines exported by Corcyra 
from the Hadriatic. 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; among them is a stand for a 
vase, the body of a chariot; and a vase of much later age, still filled 
with bones, and found in the catacombs of Alexandria, in Egypt. 
Presented by Sir Edward Codrinyton. 
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-work and other ornaments, 
birds, stags, &c.; among them will be seen a remarkable vase, sur¬ 
mounted by two horses. 
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, decorated with Cupids and other 
figures, in white and blue, and a small oenochoe, on which, in white, 
is a boy crawling on the ground towards a low stool, on which is an 
apple. A globular vase, with a triclinium, containing human bones 
found in a sepulchre at the Piraeus. A vase of the same shape is seen 
close to the triclinium. 
Cases 35, 36. Shelf 1. Vases of ancifent. style, principally from 
Athens. With these are a few vases of the Roman period, w T ith subjects 
stamped on them. 
Shelf 2. Lecythi of the finest epoch of Athenian art, probably con¬ 
temporaneous 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 represents Electra and her maids at the tomb of 
Agamemnon, with colours in blue, 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. Terra¬ 
cottas in bas relief, from Melos, representing a bacchante playing on 
crotola; the son of Creon devoured by the sphinx; Bellerophon, 
mounted upon horseback, destroying the Chimaera; Perseus on horse¬ 
back, killing the gorgon Medusa; and the meeting of the poet Alcaeus, 
and Sappho. 
Shelf 3. Archaic Athenian vases: a remarkable vase, with a painted 
cover, coloured w T hite, with the foreparts of three gilded gryphons at the 
