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on horseback and another fallen ; lions devouring other animals ; the 
bronzes of Siris, which have formed that part of the armour which 
covered the shoulders, of most exquisite Greek toreutic work, repre¬ 
senting two combats of Greeks and Amazons: part of ancient scabbard, 
on which, in outline, is Briseis led away from Achilles. 
Case 89. Fourteen statues of Harpocrates, wearing the Egyptian 
pschent, and holding a cornucopiae, 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; female Satyr, ter¬ 
minal ; boy gathering fruit; tw T o Satyrs, Cupid on a ram’s head; 
Hercules strangling the Nemean lion ; frightening the Stymphalian 
birds. 
Case 91. Fourteen figures, Hercules subduing the Maenalian stag, 
reposing, and his weapons seized by Cupid; with a cup, w T ith the apples 
of the Hesperides ; Pan with goat’s legs, and the pedum and syrinx. 
Case 92. Eight mirrors, from Athens; mirror, elegant bronze 
eylix, 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; 
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, Paramysaeus; series of lead w eights called market weights, 
and as heavy as a mna or pound ; the runa, 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 Aohe- 
lous; two Sirens; two sphinxes ; a dwarf, one of the Lares holding 
a cup and cornucopia; Philoctetes; two figures of Victory and one 
of Fortune. 
