GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. G5 



By Purchase : — II. — Acquisitions. 

 I. — Objects in Gold. 

 1. Solid flat bar with two rectangular stamps, both at the 



same end of the bar ; (a) ^/^^^ 



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On the r. is a tendril decoration. The larger letters, which 

 are within a sunk rectangle, a23pear to have been added 

 after the stamping of the smaller letters. They may, perhaps, 

 be resolved thus: Ac .... Ve . . . . p(rae)p(ositi) 

 sig(naverunt). "Signed by Ac .... Ye .. . ., masters of the 

 mint." The smaller letters, .... antius (p)roba,vit, belong 



to the assayer's stamp. (5) j cdmw 



within a plain sunk 



rectangle. Perhaps = ' E^/xodttoXewc, in which case the bars may 

 have been stamped at Hermupolis. Weight 345 • 054 grammes. 

 2. Boat-shaped bar with hollow raised ends. The gold 

 has been tilted from one end of the mould to the other. 

 An irregular trickle of metal runs along the length of the 



bar. At one end is a rectangular sunk stamp. 



BENIGNV 

 SCOXIT 



Benignus coxit : " Benignus refined the gold." Weight, 

 342-98 grammes. 



Both these bars are said to have been found with several 

 others at Aboukir in the winter of 1901-02. See Arch. Anz., 

 1902, p. 4G ; Proc. of Soc. of Ant. (2nd series), XX., p. 90 ff. 



3. Necklace composed of a chain of plaited wire, with a 

 pear-shaped ornament, decorated with a tendril in fi.ligree, at 

 either end. Linked to either ornament is a flat disk of open 

 S-shaped spirals with globules interspersed. The disks are 

 fastened together by a hook and eye. On the chain is a 

 movable ring, from which hangs an aureus of Domitian 

 (date, A.D. 91) in plain gold setting. From Egypt. 



4. Bracelet consisting of two double wavy wires soldered 

 to one another, and forming a support for alternate pairs of 

 pearls and plasma beads. These are threaded upon gold 

 wires which pa§s through rings soldered to the body of the 

 bracelet. The fastening consists of a pin passed through 

 loops attached to either end of the bracelet. 



5. Pair of earrings composed of a rosette of IC petals with 

 a pearl in the centre, and a large amphora on square base 

 which is suspended from the rosette. The body of the 

 amphora is formed by a plasma bead ; the handles are in the 

 shape of dolphins. Pendent chains of plaited wire are 

 attached to either side of the rosettes. The hook, soldered 

 behind the rosette, is half masked by apalmette and acanthus 

 leaf. 



4, 5 are said to have been found together in a tomb at 

 Ashmunin, in Egypt. 



