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140 Route 10. BRUSSELS. Eastern Quarters:
sized cat; 3. Lid of a sarcophagus, dating from the period of the Persian
domination; on the right of the passage, mummy of a calf’s head. — The
Room to the right of the entrance contains new acquisitions, including
two wooden sarcophagi and a barrel-shaped sarcophagus, in terracotta. —
Farther to the left of Room III is the —
Collection of Antique Vases, most of which were bequeathed to the
museum by /. de Ravestein, formerly Belgian minister at the Vatican, —
Room IV. Case Il. Vases of the Mycenean period (15-41ith cent. B.C.),
including the head of a dog, from Argolis; in the middle of the room,
near the end, large Panathenzean vase with the name of the archon
Lolyzelos (367 B.C.), from Cyrenaica (in front Athena, at the back three
runners); on the end-wall, sepulchral paintings from Attica; on the
right, Case XIII. Attic lekythi (oil-vases) and small goblets, including
a *Goblet ascribed to Sotades, with a charming representation of a mother
and child; to the right and behind, four cases with beautiful red-
figured vases, including an amphora from Vulci, with battle-scenes ;
on the left, Case XI. Attic black-figured vases of the 6th cent. B.C.,
including a Corinthian psykter (wine-cooler). In the corner to the left
of the entrance is a huge terracotta receptacle, in which several bodies
were hidden, from the prehistoric necropolis of Yortan Kelembo in Asia
Minor. — Room V. Black Etruscan vases (so-called bucchero vases);
Hellenistic and Italic vases; in the middle, very fine large yase from
Tarentum; Case III. To the left, S. Italian vase with a comic painting
(cock and goose, with the inscription: ‘Look, the goose’, ‘Look, the cock’);
Wall-case VI. Punic terracottas from Carthage.
200m VI, Gallo-Roman Antiquities found in Belgium, including glass,
terracotta vases, and small bronzes. By the entrance, Case I. Objects
found in a tumulus near Frésin, in the province of Limburg, including
a small glass amphora in the form of a bunch of grapes (first half of the
2nd cent. A.D.); on the left, Case 1V. Brightly coloured art-glass (so-
called Millefiori glass), bronze statuettes (above, 10. Mercury, of Greek
workmanship), 8, Carved ivory parazonium (dagger of honour carried by
Roman officers); Case II. Objects found in a tumulus near Herstal (ist-
2nd cent. A.D.). — In the gallery adjoining on the right are Roman in-
scriptions and stone monuments found in Belgium and a collection of
specimens of marble from Rome.
Larcr Cenrrat Haun (R. VII). Antique Sculptures. First comes the
Greek section: Painted terracotta sarcophagus from Clazomene (7-6th cent.
B.C.); archaic heads (replica of the Hermes Propylaios of Alkamenes ;
barbaric head of the school of Pergamon, 3rd cent. B.C.) and two torsos
of the 5-4th cent. B.C.; on the left, archaic draped torso of a woman,
small Greek sepuichral steles; in the middle, Daphnis and a dancing
satyr, marble statues of the Alexandrine period. — At the end is the
Roman section, of which the chief treasure is the bronze statue of
Septimius Severus, from Rome, where it was found in the 47th cent.,
near the Castel Sant’ Angelo. To the right of it, portrait-head of a man;
to the left, head of Asculapius; in front, three leaden coffins from Sidon
(8rd-Ath cent. A.D.).
Room VIII. Terracottas. In the middle, figurines from Asia Minor
and Tanagra; by the right wal], terracotta bust of a woman, from a tomb
near Smyrna; in the wall-cases, small terracotta heads from Smyrna, of
which the most noteworthy are the caricatures on the left, of a kind for
which the satire-loving Greeks found ample material in the crowd of
oriental merchants that flocked to that important seat of commerce,
Case IT. Beotian terracottas of the 5th cent. B.C.; Case I. Terracottas
from Cyprus. Also, Case VII. Pheenician and other glass. Cut stones,
vitreous paste, etc. — Room IX. Bronze Utensils. Pans, pots, ladles,
Ornaments, surgical instruments, weights, candelabra, lamps, helmets,
and cistee. Case I, Gold ornaments. Cases IX, IV, V. Statuettes, chased
mirrors, boxes.
The small park on the E. side of the Palais du Cinquantenaire
is adjoined by the Avenue de Tervueren (p. 146), on the first |
