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PLATE II.

GREEK INTAGLI FROM THE MERTENS-SCHAAFHAUSEN COLLECTION.

1. HERCULES SLAYING THE HYDRA. Exactly identical with a type of the coins of Phæstus, in Crete. Sard.

2. HEAD OF PENELOPE, or more probably of Creusa. See Christodorus Statues in the Gymnasium of Zeuxippus' (Anthol. i. p. 32):

:

"Eneas' consort next, in mournful guise
The veiled Creusa met my wondering eyes;

Round both her cheeks her veil full closely drawn,

Down to her feet descends the flowing lawn

As one lamenting stands the woeful dame,

And tears of bronze her nurse's fall proclaim;

How conquered Ilium on that fatal day

Lost and betrayed had sunk, the Argives' prey."

Deeply cut on a very fine Sard.

3. ATREUS ARMED WITH THE HARPE OF PERSEUS (the founder of Mycenae), about to cut up the child of his brother Thyestes. Sard.

4. HEAD OF APOLLO. Fine work of the early school.

Bold Greco-Italian work.

Nicolo.

5. HEAD OF A POET (perhaps Terpander, wrongly called of Ulysses). Calcedony. 6. WOUNDED WARRIOR DEFENDING HIMSELF WITH AN AXE. Antique paste.

7. NEPTUNE. Delicate work in low relief.

8. SILENUS holding a crater to his panther. broken.

9. HERO AND LEANDER.

Yellow Sard.

Late work, probably Roman. Sard.

Fine work. Pale Sard.

10. ORPHEUS seated on a rock, supporting his lyre on the trunk of a tree. Sard. 11. CERES, or a priestess with sceptre and fillet, her hair gathered into a long tress. Minutely finished. Sard.

12. ACTOR IN THE COMEDIA TOGATA, holding the pedum, and wearing a comic mask. Sard.

13. VENUS REGARDING HERSELF IN A CONVEX MIRROR. Agate.

14. INDIAN BACCHUS. Archaic style. Sard.

15. ERECTHEUS ABOUT TO SACRIFICE HIS DAUGHTER CHTHONIA beneath the sacred olive-tree: a female seen emerging from the ground typifies the following suicide of all her sisters. Agate.

16. YOUTHFUL FAUN CARRYING A KID. An admirable work. Yellow Sard. 17. LUNA VISITING ENDYMION sleeping upon Mount Latmos: Cupids bearing attributes of the chase An admirable group, and engraved on a Sard of extraordinary beauty.

18. ARGUS WITH ADZE cutting out the stem of his ship from the vocal oak of Dodona supplied by Pallas. Greco-Italian work. Sard.

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