2-981-892 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Castellani Collection in the British Museum, 1876. '1. Gold earring...From Metapontum, in Magna Graecia. 2. Gold earring in form of dolphin...3. Gold spiral ornament, perhaps for twining tresses of hair through it...4. Etruscan necklace: the cylinders are composed of amber...5. Marble statue of heroic size, representing the Indian Bacchus...6. Bronze bulla, worn by slave. 7. Terracotta statuette of a comic actor. 8. Articles of toilet, consisting of strigils, or skin-combs, bottle for oil, and box with compartments. 9. Marble head of young Bacchus, or perhaps Ariadne...10. Marble head of Euripides. 11. Bronze Etruscan mirror...12. Bronze cover of a mirror-case...13. A buckle. 14. Marble figure, life size, of a boy...picking a thorn from his foot. 15. Bronze figure of a bull...16. Wooden box, with lid, divided into compartments, which contain rouge...17. Comb made of wood, richly ornamented'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.