. Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum. hair, a thong wound round , and shoes ; in his 1. hand are a strigil and lekythos, and he places r. handon the others 1. side. He appears to be copied from a fourth century Greekoriginal. Ht. 19 in. Diam. 9^ in. Castellani, 1884 {Sale Cat. 362). Drawing free and rathercareless. The feet have become detached. 641. Cista with tubes for unguents. The cista has a cover perforated with a largehole in the centre, and eight smaller roundthe edge ; in five of these smaller hol

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. Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum. hair, a thong wound round , and shoes ; in his 1. hand are a strigil and lekythos, and he places r. handon the others 1. side. He appears to be copied from a fourth century Greekoriginal. Ht. 19 in. Diam. 9^ in. Castellani, 1884 {Sale Cat. 362). Drawing free and rathercareless. The feet have become detached. 641. Cista with tubes for unguents. The cista has a cover perforated with a largehole in the centre, and eight smaller roundthe edge ; in five of these smaller holes thetubes still remain intact ; in the rim are twosmaller holes. It stands on three human feetto r. On the top was a figure of Hermes, nowbroken off; his r. hand is extended, and heis beardless, and wears a wingedpetasos, and himation over , in which 1. arm is muf-fled, embroidered with trefoils ofdots and borders of small his 1. foot are remains of anendromis. Ht. of cista, 5! in. ; of the Hermes,3 in. Civita Castellana, 1892. Thefeet of the Hermes are wanting. Goodpatina. Fig. 17 = No.

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