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deoriim, which was very much decayed. It is mounted in iron. The ornaments 

 which compose it being of ivory, the rust of the iron has as it were destroyed 

 the whole. So that there were collected but a few remains of the 4 pillars, 

 some pieces of the bands, which went round the frame, 8 pieces of ivory, of 

 an oblong form, in each of which was engraved a figure of some unknown deity, 

 all of the same design, but in a bad style; and two heads of a horse, which are 

 fellows, and belong to the lectisternium, not unlike that great one of brass, 

 which is now in the Royal Museum. There were found also several little vases of 

 earthen ware, whose forni is this : they have a long neck, with a mouth propor- 

 tionably straight; the body is oval, which towards the bottom is so small, that 

 they cannot stand upright. The misfortune is, that 1 of these vases, which are 

 of oriental alabaster, and of the most excellent workmanship, are both broken 

 in the middle. 



Near this sepulchre there was opened another, belonging to the freed men of 

 the Pavillia family. There we found many glasses and pieces of earthen ware, 

 and two most beautiful earthen lamps. On one of them is a Hercules going to 

 slay a serpent with his club, which he holds in his left hand. On the other is a 

 priestess of Bacchus, which in one hand holds the sacrifical knife, and in the 

 other the half of a victim. There are also 2 very small wine-glasses, which 

 contain, the one a liquor of the colour of red wine, the other a liquor more 

 limpid than white wine, but without any smell. In this tomb were found also 

 the usual dice, strigils, mirrors, and fibulae. The bones and ashes were in urns 

 made of earth. 



Four other sepulchres also have been opened, in all of which were found the 

 usual strigils, mirrors, tesserae and fibulae. In one of them was found a little 

 earthen urn with its cover. Within the same tomb was a small urn of glass 

 elegantly made, containing the ashes of a child. Near the said urn were found 

 several httle things, which probably were the playthings of the child; these were 

 two very small goblets of baked earth glazed, with a handle to each ; two small 

 water ewers, of the same materials, with ornaments; these also are extremely 

 small; another vase of common earth, which forms a recumbent ox, on the back 

 of which is a hole to receive the water, which was poured out through the mouth; 

 and there is a handle on one side of the body. In this same sepulchre was 

 found a monstrous priapus of red earth. This figure has wings, and is much 

 overcharged. All these things, which I have described, are preserved by me in 

 the Royal Museum, in a separate apartment from that in which is preserved what 

 has been found at Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae. I have already filled 8 

 chambers with antiquities ; and because those are not sufficient, I shall begin to 

 place many other things, which hitherto I have been forced to keep in confusion 

 in other chambers, which are on the same floor. A single volume of the Papyrus 



