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Rh $60$ See Mr. Calvert's Memoir on Opliryninum, Archæological Journal, 1860, p. 291.

$61$ See Antiqnites du Bosphore cimmérien, St. Petersburg, 1854, Introduction, p. .37.

$62$ The vases found in the pithoi consisted of the following kinds:— Two-handled drinking-cups, of the shapes called kylikes and hothones. Flasks for oils and unguents (lekythi and aryhalli).

Figures occurred on several vases; the subjects were, in several cases, Dionysiac. On one of the lekythi was represented a figure driving a higa. In subject and drawing, this vase-picture resembled those of a late period found at Athens. All the cups were turned downwards, their mouths resting on the lower side of the pithos. The shallow cups contained bones and earth compacted together by pressure. With these vases were found two small bottles of blue glass inlaid with yellow, and a terra-cotta relief, $6 1⁄2$ inches high, representing the upper half of a female figure, perhaps Aphrodite. On her head is a kind of crown, or tiara, from which a veil hangs down behind, over her shoulders. Round her neck is a necklace; her hands are placed one on each breast. This terra-cotta is in a good style, but rather carelessly executed. A fragment from a thin marble slab inscribed—

$63$ In the Villa Albani at Rome is a marble relief, representing the interview between Alexander and Diogenes. It is curious that the pithos in this relief is represented mended with rivets.

$64$ It appears from Birch, Hist, of Pottery, i. 188, that similar pithoi were discovered in excavations on the site of old Dardanns, by Mr. J. Brunton. Many small lekythi, resembling those at Athens, and some early vases, have likewise been found there (ibid. ii. p. 115). Mr. Birch states (ibid.) that lekythi resembling those from Athens have been found at the supposed tomb of Achilles in the Troad.

$65$ N. H. 34, c. 6, § 36, and ibid. c. 7, § 42, where the number of colossal statues at Rhodes is stated to be 100, not 300, as I have inadvertently cited it in the text.

$66$ My information respecting this head is derived from Mme. Biliotti, the wife of M. C. Biliotti, British Vice-Consul at Scio, who remembers the head on her first arrival at Rhodes.