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Gladiator, the figure was represented as lying on two trum- 
pets, and had on its neck a torque. Dr. Ball exhibited a 
remarkably well-executed statuette copy of the figure, kindly 
lent him by Mrs. Hutton, and pointed out that the trumpets 
were in form and dimension excellent representations of the 
larger part of the fine trumpet found at Banbridge, and now 
-in the Museum of the Academy. In the statue they appear 
connected, the larger end of one to the smaller end of the 
other by a strap or thong. This induced him to believe, that 
in the original statue, not two trumpets, but two pieces, iden- 
tical with those in the Academy, were represented, and that 
in the restoration of the right arm, &c., which took place 
when the statue was found, the artist had added a bell- 
mouth to the curved cylindrical tube, believing that two trum- 
pets should have been figured, not knowing that these instru- 
ments were made in two or more pieces: it is not probable 
that two exactly similar trumpets were carried. The mode 
of attachment of the strap points out its use, i.e. to hold the 
trumpet in its proper position when put together; and in the 
figures on the column of Trajan, several men, probably Da- 
cians, are represented blowing trumpets resembling the Irish 
specimen, and with the strap attached and strained in the 
manner of a bow-strg. The date of the statue in question 
_has been much disputed. Byron, it does not appear on what 
authority, in his beautiful notice of the Dying Gladiator, 
assumes that he was a Dacian, and the figures on Trajan’s 
column seem to support this view: however, learned artists, 
for the greater part, give it a higher antiquity. With 
respect to the torque on the neck, it appears to be a very 
fair representation of the general form of the torques found 
in Ireland. It may be observed, similar ornaments are said 
to be in use in the interior of Africa,—a fact known long 
since, it appears, by a fine old picture, the property of Dr. 
