Aberdeen, Lord, 8, 218, 355
Acamas, Demophron, and Æthra
(vase), 345

Acanthus, coins of (lion devouring
a bull), 500

Acarnanian League, coin of, 531
Achæan League, coins of, 532
Achelous (river), representations of,
on vases, 316

Achilles, the arms of (vase subject),
386, 409 (terra-cotta), 695;
and Hector (vases), 320, 378;
and Lycaon (vase), 415; and
Penthesilea (vase), 348
Acropolis of Athens, excavations
at, 303, 314

Actæon (statue), 65
Actors as birds (vase), 345; a
comic actor (Roman statuette),

Eginetan smile," 112, 268
Alius Cæsar (bronze bust), 453
Æneas and Anchises (vase), 344
Enus, coins of, 506, 515
Æschines (portrait bust), 248
Eschylus referred to, 384, 427,
509, 620

Esculapius types of, in art, 80;
(marble bas-relief), 80; (head
from Melos), 193; worship of,
193 n.; (gem), 625
Ætolian League, coins of, 531
Age of Gold," the, in Greece,
558; among the Celts, 579
Agoracritus (sculptor), 194
Agrigentum, coins of, 503, 509.
See also Girgenti

Agrippina the elder, cameo from

Marlborough collection, 647
Ajax, suicide of (vase), 402; and
Cassandra (vase), 328
Alabaster jar from the Mausoleum,
213; urns (Roman), II
Alabastron (shape of vase), 278
Alcæus and Sappho vase, 363;
terra-cotta relief, 691

"

Alcestis, story of, 131; on a
sculptured column from Ephe-
sus, 131

Alcmena (vase), 412
Alexander the Great features of,

142; influence of, on Greek art,
52, 142, 428, 523; coins of, 524;
portraits of, in the Museum,
head (Second Græco-Roman

Egyptian, 84

Amasis (vase painter), 348
Amathus, vases from, 305; boats
from, 708

Amazons on the Mausoleum frieze,

214, 215, 216; on the Phigalian
frieze, 234; head of an Amazon
(? after Polyclitus), 69; on
vases, 280, 376

Amber, its use in antiquity, 568;
ornaments from Italy, 569
Ameinocleia, sepulchral monument
of, 240
Amethyst, 619

Amphictyonic Council, coin of,
516

Amphora (shape of vase), 276
Anacreon, bust, 10; vases, 380
Anchor, lead, from Cyrenè, 84
Anderson, W. C. F., on a bronze
chair, 449

Andromeda (vase), 390

Anesidora, 373.

See also Pandora

Apollo

Roman Britain

Anglo-Roman methods of burial,

723, 733

Anglo-Saxon jewellery, 608, 665
Animals in bronze, 454; in terra-
cotta, 707; (Anglo-Roman),
731
Antæus (vase), 318
Antefixes (terra cotta roof orna-

ments), origin of, 484; Etrus-
can, 484; from Capua, 704
Anthology, the Greek, referred to,
369, 380, 619, 631, 640, 641,
670, 671, 696, 706

Antigonus Gonatas, coin, 531
Antinous, portrait bust, 27

Antiquities as historical data, 203,

759

45

types of, in ancient art,

Apotheosis of Homer (bas-relief),

66

Archaic art, characteristics of, Ch.

vii., 691
Archaistic style, in sculpture, 61;

on vases, 304
Archemorus, death of (vase), 358
Archer, bronze statuette of an (found
in Cheapside), 729

Ares and Hephaestus (burlesque,
vase), 418

Arethusa on Syracusan coins, 511,
521, 522

Argonauts (terra-cotta reliefs), 555
Argos, coins of, 517
Ariadne, statue, 9
Ariarethes, 223

Aristophanes referred to, 345, 359,
367, 418

Aristotle referred to, 494 n., 499,
502, 503

Armed runner, head of, 134
Armour, 450, 454. See also Cuirass,
Greaves, Helmet

Arnold, Matthew, referred to, 46,
72, 343, 757
Arnold, W. T., cited, 717
Arrephoroi, 196

Artemisia, 209; colossal statue,

pottery, 741
Arts and crafts, 448, 470, 763
Aryballos (shape of vase), 278
Ashanti gold ornaments, 588
Askos (shape of vase), 279, 406
Ass as water-carrier (vase), 387
Assteas (vase painter), 412
Assyrian influence on Greek art,

289, 297, 300, 301, 325, 686;
on Etruscan, 484

Astragali, game of, 58, 673;
(marbles), girl playing, 58;
group, 58; (terra-cotta), 714.
See also Knucklebones
Athena birth of, legend, 158; on

the E. pediment of Parthenon,
158; on vases, 320, 329;
strife of, with Poseidon, on
W. pediment of Parthenon,
165

on the pediments of Ægina,

IIO; on vases, 325, 332, 360,
391; vase moulded in the
form of (Phidian type), 410;
on coins, 501, 532
Athena Hygieia (bronze statuette),
430

Lemnia, type of (terra-cotta), 688
Parthenos, statuettes, 188; type
of, on a vase, 389; bronze
statuette, 430
Promachos,

type of (bronze

statuette), 430

and Poseidon (on terra-cottas),
709, 711

See also Minerva
Athenæum Club, frieze, 174 n.
Athenæus, referred to, 98, 266,
299, 710
Athenian lekythi, 367
Athens coins of, 501, 508, 532,

537; characteristics, 506;
reason for conservatism in, 507
expedition to Potidæa, 6; finan-
cial, political, and religious
inscriptions, 6, 7. See also
Parthenon, Erechtheum, etc.
Athletes sculpture (Westmacott
coll.), 38; incised bronze
disk, 435; at bath (vase), 384.
See also Pentathlon

Atlas and Hercules (metope of
Olympia), 114

Attic reliefs (casts), 117
Atys (marble head), 70

Augustus busts, 21, 22; on coins,

540,

542; on a sardonyx

(Strozzi cameo), 645;

another cameo, 650

on

Auldjo vase, 658
Aulus (name on gem), 625
Authority and Archæology cited,
xvi, 9, 303

Bacchanalian Rout (relief), 62
Bacchante Chimairophonos (relief),
54

Bacchante, marble head, 62; on
a gem, 622

Bacchic scenes (terra-cotta relief),
556

Bacchic vases (marble), 9, 11, 13
Bacchus and Ambrosia (statue), 58

Bacchus and Silenus (painting from

Bosco Reale), 594
Bacchus (statue from Cyrene), 77
Bacchus (youthful head of), 228
Bacchus. See Dionysus
Backgammon (Etruscan mirror de-
sign), 483

Bactria coins of, 530, 536, 539,
544; gold ornaments, 600
Bale vase (Pandora, polychrome
kylix), 372

Ball, game of mounted, 327, 397,

702

Balsamaria (Etruscan), 471

Bank of England, Roman pave-

ment from, 721

Banquet scenes, Greek (on sepul-

chral reliefs), 242; (on vases),
340, 357, 365, 383; Etruscan
(paintings), 465, 468; sepul-
chral significance of, 468
Barbarian, head of, 65; colossal

head of, 70; bronze figure of
(found in the Thames), 731
Baring-Gould on portraits of the
Cæsars, 20, 21

Bartlow Hills, enamelled vase found
in, 738

Bassæ, temple of Apollo at, 230.
See also Phigalia
Bath-chair (marble), 74
Beaconsfield, Earl of, 289

Beauty and the Beast" (terra-
cotta figurine), 695

Bee in Greek mythology, 561; on

a vase, 326; a bee in gold
from Crete, 560; on coins of
Ephesus, 505
Bellerophon and Chimera: on a

Lycian tomb, 224; on vases,
334; terra-cotta relief, 691

Bells, 763

Biomorph, 293

Bisellium, 449

Bithynia, coins of, 539

Blacas collection, purchase of, 649,
663
Black-figure vases, Ch. xviii.
Boat, model of a, in gold (Celtic),
583

Boats, representations of, on vases,
298, 330, 337; terra-cotta
models, 708

Boehm, Sir Edgar, R.A., on the
Elgin Marbles, 153

Boeotian vases, 297

Bolivia, silver ornaments from, 588
Bonaparte, Prince Lucien, 280, 475
Boreas and Oreithyia (bronze relief),
445

Bosco Reale, paintings from, 553
Botticelli, 702

Boustrophedon manner of writing,

2, 4

Bowl, in bronze, with relief of
Scylla, 440

Boxing scenes on vases, 380, 396,
400

Boy and goose (silver statuette),
598

Boy playing morra (bronze), 439
Branchidæ, sculptures from the
Sacred Way, 86, 93-95
Branteghem, A. von, vases from
his collection, 358

British Museum, account of the
formation of Greek and Roman
collections, xviii

Bröndsted and the bronzes of Siris,
443
Bronzes (Ch. xxi. ): primitive method

of making bronze statues, 422,
476; invention of hollow cast-
ing, 423; popularity of bronze
statues, 423; why few have
survived, 423; patina, 427;
forgeries, 427 n.; notable
statues (or fragments) de-
scribed--leg of a statue, 424 ;
head of Aphroditè, 425; head
of Sleep, 423; head of a poet,
433; Anglo-Roman, 727
popularity of statuettes, 428:
notable statuettes described;