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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[BRONZE 
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. Pyxides, or unguent boxes, for 
the toilet, of arragonite, from Syra; arragonite patera, and small naked 
figure of a female, supposed to be of the earliest Greek art, from Syra. 
Teracotta lamps ; and a neurospaston, or terracotta doll. 
Case 37. Shelf 2. 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. Not yet finally arranged. Five leaden vases from 
Delos, containing human bones. 
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 piios, 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, 
76 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 
as an infant, attacked by two snakes, and lamenting; similar cistas were 
used to hold the strigils, or combs, lecythi, or oil vases, and paint 
vases, used for the bath or the toilet. Bronze tripodial hearth, l<r%dpiov, 
or foculus, found at Cervetri or Caere, with the charcoal still on it; with 
this are a pair of tongs, a wheel, and a cyathus, or scraper for the ashes 
—creagra, or ‘xip^ojooX.ov, instruments used in cookery to take boiled 
meat out of the cauldron, or move the entrails ; tripods, three Roman, 
one ornamented with sphinxes and other ornaments; another of archaic 
style, found at Caere or Cervetri, with Hercules : Boreas carrying away 
Oreithyia; the upper part of a tripod, spherical, and consequently 
votive or decorative, with tridents and heads of hippocampi; various 
fragments and parts of furniture. 
Cases 52, 53. Candelabra from the Etruscan sepulchres, the tops 
surmounted with small figures; on them is one from Vulci or Canino, 
with Peleus seizing Thetis, who endeavours to escape by changing him- 
