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Rh represents the interior of a cavern, on the right- hand side of which is a small figure of Pan seated in a niche in the rock, and playing on the syrinæ. Below him is an altar, before which Hermes and three nymphs arc dancing.$53$

The sculpture of this relief appears to be of a good period of art, execiited with a boldness and freedom which approaches to carelessness. Some of the hands and arms of the figures are broken off, but the scidpture is otherwise in good condition. M. Sitrides has m his possession a spoon, which I recognized as a rehc from the curious collection of silver objects found at Lampsacus some years ago, and of which a portion is now in the British Museum. These objects consist of spoons and other implements, which the inscriptions and marks on them show to have been originally used in a Pagan temple, and to have been afterwards reconsecrated and adapted for Christian worship. On one of these spoons in the British Museum is inscribed the saying of Solon, on another the saying of Bias of Priene. The spoon in the possession of M. Sitrides had on the inside of the bowl:—

On one side of the handle , on the other side. The saying, here ascribed to Periander, is elsewhere given to Cheilon.$54$

With this collection of spoons was found a necklace composed of portions of gold chain, alternating