part these toys have been found in the tombs of children. The seated figure of a girl (No. =599=; fig. 234), holding an ivory dove in her hand, and surrounded by her spinning instrument for the knee (see p. 145), her shoes, and marriage-bowl, was found in a tomb near Athens, probably of the fourth century B.C. The bowl is almost certainly the [Greek: lebês gamikos], used by the bridal pair immediately after marriage. It is therefore not unreasonable to conclude that the tomb was that of a newly wedded bride. Another plaything in vogue among the Greeks was the whipping top, an ancient model of which in terracotta (No. =600=) is seen in the Case and is illustrated on the right of fig. 235. On the left of the figure is another form of Greek whipping top (of terracotta, found in the sanctuary of the Kabeiri at Thebes), and in the centre a design from a vase, in which a woman is represented whipping such a top. In a Greek epigram[78] the top is mentioned as a boy's plaything, together with a ball, a rattle, and the favourite knucklebones, and an inscription from the sanctuary of the Kabeiri at Thebes speaks of four knucklebones, a top ([Greek: strobilos]), a whip, and a torch dedicated by a woman named Okythoa.[79] (=591=) _Cat. of Vases_, III., E 533 ff.; Benndorf, _Griech. u. Sicil. Vasenbilder_, p 64; (=599=) For the [Greek: lebês gamikos], see _Ath. Mitt._, XXXII. (1907), p. 111 f.; (=600=) See _Ath. Mitt._, XIII., p. 426 f., and _Van Branteghem Coll._, No. 167. [Footnote 74: Paus. V. 20. 1.] [Footnote 75: Xen., _Symp._ 55.] [Footnote 76: Suidas, s.v. [Greek: Koroplathoi].] [Footnote 77: Conze, _Att. Grabreliefs_, No. 880, pl. clxx.] [Footnote 78: _Anth. Pal._ vi. 309. [Greek: euphêmon toi sphairan, eukrotalon te Philoklês Hermeiê tautên pyxineên platagên, astragalas th' hais poll' epemênato, kai ton helikton rhombon, kourosynês paigni', anekremasen]. ] [Footnote 79: _Athen. Mitt._, XIII., p. 427: [Greek: Okythoa astragalôs pettaras, strobilon, mastiga, daida,....] ] XXII.--EDUCATION, WITH WRITING AND PAINTING. (Table-Case J.) =Education.=--Case J contains several objects illustrating that part of the Greek child's education which was connected with the arts of reading, arithmetic and writing. A Greek terracotta of the fourth century B.C. with Silenus holding the child Dionysos by the hand (No. =601=), may be supposed to represent the old pedagogue, the slave whose duty it was to take the child to school. (Scenes in a music school are shown on the vases E 171, E 172, in cases 55-56.) [Illustration: FIG. 236.--TERRACOTTA GROUPS. READING AND WRITING LESSONS (NO. 602). Ht. 4-1/4 in. and 4-3/4 in.]