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348 Route 41. LEYDEN. Museum of Antiquities.
First Foor. Greek Vases (catalogue, 1905, 70 c.). Straight in front
is Room IJV. Cabinet 1a, to the right of the entrance, contains the earliest
specimens. Cab. 2. Mycenean vases (1500-1000 B.C.). Large Dipylon vase
with linear ornamentation. Cab. 3. Cyprian vases. Cabs. 4 & 5. Vases in
the geometrical style. Cab. 6. Wases in the post-geometrical style, Cab. 7.
Primitive Italic pottery. Cabs. 8 &9. So-called ‘bucchero’ pottery (Etrus-
can). — Room V. Cab. 10. Post-Mycenean pottery (8th cent. B.C.). Cab. 14.
Proto-Corinthian and Corinthian vases. Cab Tonic, Attic-Corinthian,
and Chalcidian vases. Cabs. 13-47. Black-fignred Attic vases (including
large hydric in Cab. 14). By the entrance-wall are terracotta sare »phagi
from Clazomenz, including one for a child. — Room VI. Cab. 18 Three
Panathenaic “Amphore, of the kind presented as prizes in the games at
the festival of Athena at Athens. Cabs. 19 & 20. Lecythi. — Room VII.
Cabs. 21 Red-figured Attic vases. Cabs. 25-28. S. Italian and Etruscan
red-figured vases. — Room VIII. Hellenistic vases.
SEconD FLoor. Room IX. Roman yases in ‘terra sigillata’. Cork
models of ancient buildings. — Room X. Roman terracotta v els and
lamps. — Room XJ. On the side of the staircase, in the middle Pheni-
cian and Roman glass, chiefly from Palestrina. In front is an archaic
Etruscan bronze figure of a warrior, and behind is a “Boy with a goose,
a fine bronze from Cortona. To the right of the entrance are Greco-Roman
terracottas. By the windows are Greek and Greco-Roman *Gold Ornaments
from the Crimea, Roman bronze lamps and candelabra, and Greek helmets,
The glass-cases contain small bronzes, figures of animals, Etruscan and
Roman mirrors, buckles, etc. To the left of the entrance are small Greco-
Etruscan bronzes. The bronze head of a woman on the top of the case
is a modern cast of an antique marble. By the windows are coins, bronze
vessels, etc. By the rear-wall are terracotias, Tanagra figurines (3rd cent.
B.C.), tasteful Myrina figures, caricature head from Smyrna, Roman doll, etc.
On quitting this room we enter the Department of Dutch Antiquities,
immediately to the right (catalogue, 1908, 50 c.). We descend the staircase
to a corridor containing objects of the Stone and Bronze Ages, among the
most interesting being the ‘Klokbekers’, or bell-shaped vessels with or-
namental stripes. The staircase continues to descend to — Room XIV
(Primitive Dutch Period), containing urns and other articles found in graves.
In Corridor XV, to the left, are wooden remains, incl iding a ‘dug-out’
canoe from a moor at Drenthe and a wooden gutter from the Roman camp
near Vechten. — Room XVI (Roman Period in the Netherlands): vases of
‘terra sigillata’. In Room XVII and the adjacent room (higher up) is
Roman pottery. — We descend to a room with Roman glass - vessels,
lamps, weights for fishing-nets, roof-tiles, ete. — Room £, farther down,
contains Roman metal work. To the left: bronze helmet, face-mask,
replicas of the Hildesheim Silver Treasure, fine bronze vessels, ladles,
Silver vase, pans, iron tools, small bronze implements, buckles, needles,
spoons, hand from the bronze statue of an emperor. Close by are Roman
inscriptions. Behind, to the right, altar of the goddess Nehalennia, from
Domburg (p. 298).
Frankish & Saxon Period. Room G. Pottery. — In the next room, to
the left of the entrance, are Frankish gold ornaments (found at Wieuwerd
in Friesland); in the centre, combs, needles, and other articles of bone;
iron tools. — The last room contains the results of the latest excavations
in Holland,
We next visit the Egyptian Collection, which adjoins the entrance-
corridor (catalogue, 1907, 50. c.). Room XXIII, to the right. Ancient Em-
pire: BI. 8 Large, granite Sarcophagus; Br. 1. Mastaba (tomb - chamber)
of Akhet-Hetep-Her, from Sakkara (in front, on both sides, are portraits
of the deceased and: within are scenes from his life); to the left, er. 5.
Statuette of a scribe; Br. 4. Double-portrait of Queen Mert-Tefs; behind,
*B I, 2. Relief with a drove of asses, executed with great acity. —
Room XXIV, to the left of the entrance corridor. Middle Empire: sacri-
ficial stones; sepulchral reliefs (some painted); ships of the dead from
Thebes (in the glass-case). To the right, wooden figures; piv. 24. Silver
diadem of King Antef (1{th Dynasty; 2nd millennium B.C.). — Room XXV. |