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CATALOGUE OF BRONZES.

the bench squats Aegipan, holding up r. forefinger and extending 1. hand ; he
has large goat’s horns, and long hair and beard. Below the table is a swan to r.

Diam. 7j in. Corinth, 1888. Murray, Hacidbook ofGk. Archaeology, pp. 124, 228 ; Builder,

23 Feb. 1889, p. 145, and 16 Mar. p. 204; Dumont-Pottier, Les Ceramiques de la Grecepropre,
ii. p. 246, No. 19-20. The hinge of the cover has an incised palmette and volutes on the flap
and engrailed edge. Both conceptions are very fine, and the drawing of the incised design
is excellent.

290. Mirror-Case. On the top is a relief of Nike saerifieing a bull:

Nike kneels to r., pressing 1. knee into the r. shoulder of the bull, which lies on
the ground to r. ; with 1. hand she seizes the muzzle of the bull, forcing its head
back, while her r. hand has held the sacrificial knife, which she is about to
plunge into its throat. She has curly hair tied in a knot with floating ends,
long girt chiton fastened on the shoulders with apoptygma reaching to the knees,
and sandals ; her wings are outspread behind.

Diam. of mirror-case, 5f in.; height of relief, 4J in. Megara, 1885. Journ. Hell.

Sticd. vii. pl. D, p. 275 ff. ; Murray, Handbook of Gk. Archaeology, p. 227 ; Dumont-Pottier,

Les Ceramiques de la Grece propre, ii. p. 246, No. 21. The case is very highly polished
underneath. Cf. other examples in Journ. Hell. Stud. I. c. pl. E ; the type seerns to be
derived from the Victories on the balustrade of the temple of Athena Nike.

291. Mirror, with case and cover. On the cover is an emblema with relief ofPiATnXI.
Artemis striking down a young giant: Artemis is to the front, turning to r.,
holding a burning torch downwards in r. hand, with which she attacks the giant,
grasping his hair with her 1. hand ; she wears a long girt chiton with apoptygma,
chlamys floating behind her, and sandals. The giant kneels on 1. knee. to r. and

turns to look up at her, holding up 1. hand in supplication ; he wears a skin over
1. shoulder, and in r. hand is a short staff (?).

Diam. 6j in. Malessina or Eretria, 1894. For the type, compare the figures of
Phoibe and Hecate in the Pergamene frieze (Beschreibung der Skulptureji, Betlin, 1895,
pp. 21, 22). The case has a hinge attached, and two handles, large and small.

292. Mirror-Case, with emhlema on the cover. On the inner side of the cover
is an incised design within a band of scale-pattern : Eros moving to 1., with
wavy curls, chain of beads over r. shoulder, bracelets, and wings spread, in r.
hand a situla, in 1. an amphora of elongated shape ; rocky ground.

The emblema represents Aphrodite seated to 1. on a rock, with hair
gathered up at the back, necklace, long girt chiton, himation over lower limbs,
and sandals; her 1. hand rests on the rock and holds up her himation. Before
her stands Eros to the front, looking at her ; his hair is tied in a knot behind,
the ends hanging down, and his 1. leg is crossed over the r.

Diam. 5 in. Crete, 1875. Gazette Archeol. 1876, pl. 27, p. 107 ; Woltmann and
Woermann, History of Painting, p. 88 ; Dumont-Pottier, Les Ceramiques dc la Grece propre,
ii. p. 197. The cover is much broken round the edge.