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76 Section 3. BERLIN. Old Museum:
Room VII. Objects from Pergamon, Priene, and Bosco
Reale. Small objects from Pergamon and Priene (comp. p. 83),
mostly of the Hellenistic period: bronzes, terracottas, coal-pans, etc.
Bronze utensils and vessels from the dining-room and the kitchen
of a villa at Bosco Reale near Pompeii, etc. Dining-couch with in¬
laid ornaments in silver and copper. Fragments of wall-paintings
and reliefs in stucco from Rome and Pompeii. Mosaics: Centaur
protecting the body of his wife, from the villa of Hadrian at Tivoli;
Festival at the rising of the Nile, from Palestrina.
Room VIII. Bronze Vessels. Greek, Etruscan, and Roman
vessels. Domestic utensils, lamps, and candelabra. Weapons, ex¬
cept helmets (see Room II). Articles used in the palaestra (strigils,
oil-bottles, etc.; engraved discus). Ornamental pins in chronological
oTder. Rings, armlets, and other bronze ornaments. Etruscan
cists and hand-glasses (4th-3rd cent.; notice the Semele mirror).
Amulets. — Inscriptions on bronze and lead; the earliest known
Greek letter (4th cent.), on lead, from Attica.
Room IX. Glass and Cut Stones. Small bottles, vases, etc.,
in opaque, generally dark-blue glass, with yellow and white stripes,
from Oriental or Oriental-Greek factories. Larger polychrome
glass-vessels of the 1st cent. B.C. and the 1st cent. A.D. Monochrome
or colourless, glass vessels, mostly from the Rhine district. So-called
Diatretum, a glass vessel enveloped in a raised network of glass.—
Chains of beads in glass, stone, and fayence. — Intaglios from the
Cretan-Mycensean epoch down to the latest period of Greek art;
large rock-crystal with bust of Athena, signed by Entyches. —
Cameos: Gorgon's head of the Ptolemseic period; Hercules with
Cerberus, by Dioscurides, of the time of Augustus; large onyx cameo
with the apotheosis of an emperor (Septimius Severus ?). — Carvings
in amber, ivory, and bone.
Room X. Cyprus. Vessels from the earliest period, recalling the
early Trojan pottery, down to the Hellenistic epoch. Fine sepul¬
chral figure of a woman seated on a throne (4th cent. B.C.). Sta¬
tuettes and fragments of archaic statues in terracotta and stone;
the faces of the men and the gorgeous semi - barbaric ornaments
of the women should be noticed. Archaic bronze carriage, as sup¬
port for a kettle. Objects from Gordion in Phrygia, comprising
a bowl with the signature of the Attic painter Klitias. — Prehistoric
antiquities from the Greek islands.—Cretan-Mycensean art (ca.
1500-1000 B.C.): bronzes (praying woman, figure of a youth), terra¬
cottas (bull, idols), copies. — We return to Room I and proceed
straight on to —
Room XI. Greek Terracottas. Between the windows, Archaic
figures from Tanagra: women baking, washing, with a pan; barber,
cook. — Severe style (1st half of 5th cent.), in the central cabinets:
Youths and girls, sometimes with attributes of deities; charming