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small temple with Hermes and two goddesses. By the entrance-
wall (2nd half of 5th cent, and 4th cent.): Girl with a dnck, from
Corinth; anointing vessels in the shape of figures or groups, from
Attica; graceful figures of girls from Tanagra (4th cent.). — By the
other walls: Figures of girls, Cupids and characteristic popular
types, those at the exit-wall from Asia Minor (3rd-2nd cent. B.C.).
— In the window-cases: Reliefs of the first half of the 5th cent.
(Ulysses and Penelope from Rhodes, Calydonian hunt from Melos);
figures from a vessel, representing an abduction, from Tanagra. —
Traversing the adjacent R. XII, we next enter —
Room XIII. Italian Terracottas. Fine works from Tarentum:
head of a youth from a sepulchral statue (4th cent.). Large portrait-
busts of a man and a woman, of the early Imperial epoch. Terra¬
cottas from Psestum and Campania. Archaic Etruscan antefixse
and slabs from the facing of entablatures, with reliefs. Terracotta
reliefs with various representations, orginally painted (end of the
Republic and early Imperial epoch).
Room XII. Archaic Vases. Greek and Roman lamps. Vessels
with geometrical ornamentation (ca. 1000-800 B.C.); figures begin to
appear on the later ones, e. g. the large amphora from Hymettus
(left, No. 56). — Boeotian bowls, with birds. — Small 'Proto-Corin-
thian' vases, with friezes of pygmy figures. — Corinthian 'Pinakes'
(votive tablets of potters), with scenes in potteries. — Corinthian
black-figured vessels: 1655. Large cratera with the expedition of
Amphiaraos and the funeral games for Pelias; 1652. Amphora with
the deliverance of Andromeda. — Black-figured vases from Ionian,
Ionian-Italic, and early Attic workshops. — Panathenaean prize-
amphorae with Athena (at the end of main passage). — By the long
wall, terracotta sarcophagi from Klazomense, two of them in the
manner of the red-figured vases.
Room XIV. Black-figured and Earlier Red-figured Attic
Vases (the former till the end of the 6th, the latter of the 6th and
early 5th eent.). In the middle handsome large amphorae: a black-
figured one with horsemen, found near Athens; 2159. Large amphora
from the workshop of Andokides (theft of the tripod and scene from
the palaestra), one of the earliest works in the red-figured style;
red-figured amphora with Hermes and Silenus. At the back, am¬
phorae from Nola. To the left, red-figured lecythi.
Room XV. Red-figured Attic Vases. Earlier period: 2248,
2279. Bowls of Sosias and of Peithinos, both revealing most careful
drawing; 2285. Bowl of Duris with teaching-scene; 2294. Bowl
with brass-founder's workshop. — Middle of 5th cent.: large cratera
with Orpheus and the Thracians, at the entrance-wall. — Second
half of the 5th cent, (period of the beautiful style): 2531. Bowl of
the painter Aristophanes, with Battle of the Giants; 2633, 2634.
Two hydriae (companion pieces), Cadmus slaying the dragon, Judg-