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another to the curious proofs which our Museum contains of the 

 variety of superstitions which prevailed among the inhabitants 

 of the Roman cities. Fabricated in Egypt, it may have been 

 lost, to the dismay of its owner, in Eburacum, or placed in his 

 tomb. The views which the remains of antiquity open to us, 

 into ancient manners and opinions, will teach us to regard the 

 objects of a Museum as something more than curiosities to be 

 gazed at for their strangeness, or even admired for their skilful 

 workmanship. They are historical evidences, sometimes illus- 

 trating and confirming the information which historical litera- 

 ture conveys, sometimes supplying its deficiencies ; for without 

 this mysterious plate, how should we have known that the 

 Egyptian Tvuo-k; had made its way into this distant region of the 

 north ? 



