386 SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— H. 



3. Prof. W. J. SoLLAS, F.E.S. — A Method in Comparative 



Craniometry and its Application to Homo NeanderthaJensis. 



4. M. LE CoMTE DE St. Pkeier. — The Unio and Anodonta in the 



Prehistoric Stations. 



5. Dr. T. AsHBY. — Recent Archcsological Discoveries in Italy. 



The past year has not produced any sensational discoveries in Eome itself, 

 though considerable excitement has been caused in England by the somewhat 

 indiscreet announcement that the portraits of Peter and Paul in the hypogeum 

 in Viale Manzoni (described at the Edinburgh Meeting) were contemporary. 

 The tomb itself has been the subject of furtlier investigation, and is now 

 generally admitted to be Christian and to belong to the early third century 

 after Christ. 



In the neighbourhood of Rome, Ostia continues to provide features of 

 interest, and another large house with a large central arcaded courtyard has 

 recently been cleared. An important article on the Capitolium at Lanuvium 

 makes it clear that the famous temple of Juno Sospita has not yet been brought 

 to light, and that the only sanctuary so far found on the Acropolis (in 1914-15) 

 is probably that of the Capitoline Triad. Important discoveries have also 

 been made on the site of Horace's Sabine farm, where a large villa with fine 

 decorative mosaic pavements (a small fragment of which has been known for 

 over 100 years) has been brought 1o light. 



Attention sliould be called to the initiation of the arch.Teological map of Italy, 

 with a careful survey of the neighbourhood of Terracina. Dr. Ashby and Mr. 

 R. A. L. Fell, student of the British School at Rome, have followed the whole 

 course of the Via Flaminia from Rome to Rimini. This road was the most 

 important land route to North Italy and to the rest of Europe, though the 

 remains of it are not so well known as they deserve to be. A very fine viaduct 

 in particular, in the neighbourhood of Civita Castellana, the ancient Falerii 

 Veteres, is almost entirely unknown. 



6. Mr. S. Casson. — Recent Archceological Discoveries in Athens. 

 Three remarkable bases, one painted, two sculptured, have been discovered, 



which have furnished information on non-Olympian games not hitherto known. 



Friday, September 8. 



7. Mr. J. Whatmough. — Inscribed Fragments of Stagshorn from 

 North Italy. 



The accidental find (in November 1912), by a workman, of four pieces of 

 inscribed stagshorn amongst debris which had slipped down into a quarry from 

 the summit of a hill above Magre (near Schio, twenty miles north-west of 

 Vicenza, in one of the valleys leading up to the Brenner Pass), led to excava- 

 tions which revealed evidences of a pre-Roman occupation, with a temple or 

 sanctuary on the hilltop. Nearly a score of other inscribed fragments, also of 

 stagshorn, were discovered, and are now preserved with the first four and the 

 other objects found on the same site in the Museo Nazionale at Este, where I 

 read the inscriptions in March 1922. The character of the other remains serves 

 to date the sanctuary : they are of the same types as those of the fourth Este 

 period. 



The alphabet of the inscriptions is almost, though not quite, identical with 

 that of the famous Venetic inscriptions of the Fondo Baratela (Este), jinH is 

 clearly derived (like the Venetic) from the N. Etruscan alphabet. The 

 language, however, is not Venetic nor Etruscan ; it has certain features which 

 suggest that it may be Indo-European. If it is rightly ascribed to ' Rhaetic ' 

 (knov^n from inscriptions previously discovered), it would go to show that 



