Maenad, three-quarters facing, crowned with ivy-
leaves. Beautiful Hellenistic work. (PI. IV.)

78. Bossed jacinth. Artemis with back half-turned,
holding a bow in one hand and with the other raised
as having just released its arrow. Her chiton flies out
behind her, imparting the idea of rapid motion, and
her hound springs forward at her feet to seize the
quarry. A variant design of this class appears on
Syracusan coins of c. 215 B.C. Illrd century B.C.
Found in Curzola (Corcyra Nigra), Dalmatia, in 1876.
(PI. III.)

79. Fine red paste, imitating sard. Aphrodite arming.
She is partly draped in a transparent chiton and
holds a short sword in its sheath to which is attached
a cord falling round her neck and held up in her
other hand. Of graceful design and delicate execu-
cution. Furtwangler (A.G. ii. 188 (22)) compares
the motive with the Aphrodite attributed to Alka-
menes and otherwise with the Polykleitan Diadume-
nos. Once Maskelyne Collection (No. 122). (PI. III.)

80. Onyx, beautifully striated. Seated lion with head
bowed down, as if mortally wounded. Above,
winged orb of Baal. Such a design might have been
executed by an Italo-Greek artist for a Carthaginian
signet-ring. (Furtwangler, A.G. ii. 305, iii. 1141.) A
survival of the Assyrian 'wounded lion' motive, itself
an offshoot of Minoan types. (See P. of M. iv. 547,
S48.) (PI. VI.)

81. Red crystalline stone. Head of youth.

HELLENISTIC CAMEOS

82. Onyx cameo in high relief. Head of Alexander the
Great, diademed. Contemporary or early Ptolemaic
work. A portrait head of great nobility and delicately
executed in every detail. One of the few authentic

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