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Murray, Alexander S.; Smith, Arthur H.; Walters, Henry Beauchamp
Excavations in Cyprus: bequest of Miss E. T. Turner to the British Museum — London, 1900

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(u) Necklace of carnelian and gold beads, eighteen in number. Plate XIII, Fig. 15.

(12) Necklace of stone and variegated glass beads, sixteen in number.

(13) Rock-crystal intaglio scaraboid, with design of a youth holding out a hare in left hand to which a dog leaps up.

Inscribed in Cypriote characters V^^>„<^N/ la-ma-ti-le-so, Aa/j.TTTi\.rjs. Plate IV, Curium 6.

(14) A series of silver figures of Bes, in repousse" relief, very much corroded and broken.

(15) Small fragment of stone fastened to a loop of gold wire. Plate XIII, Fig. 20.

(16) Two pairs of silver bracelets ending in snakes' heads, with hinges and holes for pins to fasten the ends.

(17) A pair of similar bracelets, small (probably for a child), ending in calves' heads.

(18) Five silver spirals, and several fragments of bracelets and spirals.

(19) Silver ring, with intaglio design on the bezel; Pegasos to right; in the background, palm-trees.

(20) Similar ring with plain bezel.

(21) Bronze female statuette; archaic Greek work of the 6th century B.C. Fig. 83.

(22) Bronze figure of a bull, rather rude, with very short legs, so as to give the proportions of a dog or other

small animal. Fig. 86.

(23) Bronze model of an Ionic column, with capital of archaic type, like those at Bassae. Fig. 87.

(24) Bronze lid of " seal-box," with design in relief of spread eagle.

(25) Bronze jug with circular mouth; a good Greek type.

(26) Bronze strigil, broken ; on the back, leaf pattern.

(27) Bronze needle or stylus.

(28) Bronze spoon-shaped object.

(29) Bronze head of some animal, broken from some object.

(30) Part of bronze surgical instrument.

(31) Fragments of bronze candelabra of the common Cypriote type. They consist of three upper parts of stems

with tripod-stand above, and inverted flowers, one above the other, below; a base of three curved feet ending
in claws; a stand for a lamp, and a flat disc which may have fitted on to the head of the statuette, No. 21.
Fig. 88.

(32) Terracotta figure of a Centaur carrying a doe on his left shoulder, with traces of red, black and white colouring.

Fig. no.

(33) Terracotta pair of panniers (as from tomb 102). Fig. 119.

(34) Red-figured Greek cotyle, on either side an owl between olive branches; one vertical handle. Fig. 139.

(35) Cotyle as last, of black-glaze ware.

(36) Alabaster vase, with ears (<Sra).

(37) Silver tetradrachm of Alexander the Great (uncertain mint).
Tomb 75.—(1) Bronze mirror, with small holes punctured round the edge.

(2) Spherical stone bead.
Tomb 77.—A very large Roman tomb with a very long Spd/^os.

(1) Gold earring, crescent-shaped, with ivy-leaves and bunches of grapes in filigree work. Plate XIII, Fig. 24.

(2) Five small pieces of gold-leaf.

(3) Glass bottle of the usual Cypriote type (Cyprus Mm. Cat. 2602-2609), the foot now lost; still contains the balm

originally placed in it.

(4) Bronze mirror-case with rings inside; the outside still retains its polished surface.

(5) A series of sixteen bone pins, hair-pins and bodkins, some fragmentary; one of the pins has an ornamental

top in the form of a pine-cone.
Tomb 78.—(1) Black-figured kylix, black-glazed all over except for a Gorgoneion in a central medallion, about 500 b.c. Fig. 139.

(2) Silver bracelets (pair of), with hinges and holes as No. 16 from tomb 73, ending in snakes' heads.

(3) Silver ring with plain bezel.

(4) Bronze mirror-handle with design of a Siren in relief to the front with wings spread; end of 15th century B.C.

Fig. 85.

(5) Four long strips of bronze, probably from the binding of a chest.

(6) Two plain silver bracelets and fragments of others.

Tomb 80.—(1) Pair of gold earrings of thick twisted wire, ending in lions' heads; 4th century B.C. Plate XIII, Fig. 25.

(2) Necklace of forty-seven gold beads, alternately plain and granulated. Plate XIII, Fig. 18.

(3) Silver drachm of Alexander the Great (uncertain mint).

(4) Silver mastos, without handles. Fig. 78.

(5) Bronze mirror-case with concentric rings inside.

Tomb 81.—(1) Gold earring, S-shaped, with two knobs attached. Plate XIII, Fig. 22.

(2) Terracotta female statuette, with arms wrapped in himation. Fig. 121.

(3) Bronze mirror with recurved edge; round the back, border of cable-pattern.

(4) Bronze bowl and spatula.

Tomb 83.—Three rectangular chambers, united by passages.

(1) Gold chain necklace of very delicate work; hook fastening. Plate XIII, Fig. 26.

(2) Gold ring with intaglio design of a female head to the left. Plate XIII, Fig. 17.

(3) Two silver bowls. Fig. 79.

(4) Silver ring with gold setting, in which has been a small paste of yellowish colour.

(5) Silver ring with scaraboid setting of banded agate, on which is an intaglio design of Heracles in the archaic

running attitude to left with bow and club ; archaic Greek work. Plate IV, Curium 5.

(6) Two very small gold spirals.

(7) Bronze mirror.
 
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