988 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



without your Father; but tlie very hairs of your liead are all luim- 

 bered.'" In Matthew v, 26, the last "farthing" is reierred to, aud in 

 Mark xii, 42, we read "two mites, which make a farthing." The Greek 

 word is 7io6pavTi}5 {Kodrantes, Latin quadrans), which was one-fourth 

 of an as. Thessalonica, formerly the capital of Macedonia, where the 

 coin was struck, is the modern Salouica. Two Epistles of Paul are 

 addressed to the Christians of this place. 



Coin of Thessalonica. — Copper. Struck 158 B. C. Obverse, head 

 of City of Nymph; reverse. Galley. (See plate 9, fig. 22.) 



Tetradrachm of Macedonia. — Silver. Struck between 156 and 

 ] 46 B. C. Obverse, head of Minerva upon a Macedonian shield ; reverse, 

 Club of Hercules. (See plate 9, fig. 27.) Macedonia is often mentioned 

 in tlie New Testament. Paul visited this province on his second and 

 third missionary voyages and founded congregations in several of its 

 cities.^ 



DiDRACHMS OF ATHENS. — Silver (two specimens) (470 to 230 B. C). 

 Obverse, head of Athene (Minerva) ; reverse, Owl. (See plate 9, fig. 24.) 

 Athens, the former capital of Attica and the modern capital of Greece, 

 was visited by Paul, where he delivered the discourse on the Areopagus.^ 



Tetrad RACHMS of Athens. — Silver (470 to 230 B. C). Obverse, 

 head of Athene (Minerva); reverse, Owl (the bird sacred to Athene) 

 (two specimens). (See plate 9, fig. 23.) 



Child's bank. — Pottery. Excavated at Ostia (seaport of ancient 

 Rome), 1886, by Dr. Thomas Wilson. (See plate 9, fig. 28.) 



When found the bank consisted of a single piece of pottery. In the 

 top was a slit through which the money was dropped. It contained 

 145 silver coins of the Roman Consular or Familia series. As these 

 coins were issued from 200 to 19 B. C, and none of a later date were 

 in the find, it is to be presumed that the bank was buried a short time 

 before the Christian era. The silver denarii in the bank are part of the 

 original lot found with the bank. 



DRESS, ornaments, AND HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS. 



The fashion of dress and ornament, as well as the form of household 

 utensils, are, it may be assumed, in the "unchanging East" essentially 

 the same at the present day as in Bible times, and the collection shown 

 of objects of modern life and industry in the Orient explain or illustrate 

 many allusions in the Scriptures. 



The objects were as follows : 



Sheepskin coat. (See plate 10.) Skins of animals were the 

 primitive material used for clothing,* and pelisses of sheepskin still 

 form an ordinary article of dress in the East. The mantle of the 



> Lnke xii, 6. » Acts xvii, 15 ff. 



* Acts xvi and xx. ♦Genesis iii, 21. 



