14 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, kc. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



interej^ting as bearing Greek inscriptions worked into their fabric; upwards of 200 small 

 Terracotta Figures of various subjects, and 66 Handles of Diotce, with names stanaped on the 

 clay, 2 Earthen drain-pipes, and 78 small fragments of Mural Decorative Painting, exhibiting 

 architectural pai terns. 



(6.) The Collection of Antiquities excavated on the site of ancient Carthage by the 

 Rev. Nathan Davis, which arrived in England in July 18-57. 



Tliis Collection consists chiefly of some fine remains of Mosaic work, of which the principal 

 portions originally formed part of the pavement of a large apartment in a Roman edjfice, 

 representing in compartments, radiatin^i froiii a centre, a series of female figures, apparently 

 allegorical, and nearly of the size of life, the remainder of the pavement being decorated 

 with mythological heads, plants, and foliage. The style of this Mosaic appears to be'ongto 

 the first or second century of ihe Christian era; its execution, though not very minute-, is 

 spirited and appropriate, and its preservation, notwithstanding the difficulties and risks of 

 removal, is remarkably good. 



Some fragments of other Mosaic pavements, with geometrical decorations of fair merit 

 and condition, though inferior to the preceding. 



An imperfect Mosaic of the time of the Lower Empire, representing, apparently, a 

 Christian subject, and remarkabli- for containing a long, though mutilated, inscription in 

 Latin, which is very rarely to be found in Mosaic work. 



Together with the preceding are some Sculptures procured by Mr. Davis in the 

 neighbourhood of his excavations, consisting of two Marble Statues of heroic size, 

 which have lost their heads, but apparently represent a Roman Emperor and Empress of about 

 the third century after Christ; a Collection of about 80 sepulchral Stelse, on many of which 

 . are insciiptions in the Phoenician and Nuraidian characters; and about 30 other fragments 

 of architecture and sculpture of less importance. The two Statues and many of the 

 Inscriptions were originally excavated for Sir Thomas Reade, late H. B. M. Consul at 

 Tunis, by M, Honegger. 



The following miscellaneous antiquities deserve notice : 



L Egyptian. — A red Granite Lion from Benha el-Asal, near the ancient Athribis, presented 

 by the Hon. C. A. Murray, Her Majesty's Minister at Teheran. 



Several important acquisitions procured at the sale of the Anastasi Collection, comprising 

 various Tablets with the names of Kings of the Twelfth and other early Dynasties, which 

 serve to fix the chronological sequence of some of these Sovereigns ; a Tablet, with the 

 name of an unknown King Ameni; a granite Tablet of the reign of Amenophis III.; a 

 Gold Hawk, inlaid with coloured stones; a Contract, in the Demotic character, dated in 

 the reign of Darius; a bilingual Ritual on Papyrus in the Greek and Demotic characters; 

 a Chessman, with the name of Pharaoh Necho ; a Statue of an officer of the reign of 

 Thothmes ill. and other objects. 



An historical Papyrus of the Twentieth Dynasty, giving the names of kings of the 

 Elevenih and other early Dynasties, purchased of Dr. Abbott. 



A Papyrus of the Nineteenth Dynasty, apparently a Romance, purchased of Madame 

 Dorbiney. 



A Coptic inscription, presented by C. Innes Pococke, Esq. 



Forty-seven pieces of Pottery, inscribed with Demotic and Greek characters, presented 

 by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson. 



IL Greek.— K small but beautiful Terracotta Head, excavated by Colonel Munro within 

 the English Camp at Sebastopol, presented by Her Majesty. 



A small seated marble figure of Cybele, and a Gieek inscription, both found in the plain 

 of Troy, bequeathed by the late Philip Barker H'ebb, Esq. 



An early Greek Cylix, bearmg the name of its maker, Glaucythis, and of the youth, 

 Hippociitus. Several Terracotta Vases, and other antiquiiies, obtained at the sale of M. 

 Barbetti's Sardinian Collection. 



in. Roman. — A Grasco-Roman Statue, of Archaic style, representing a young man, pur- 

 chased from R. VVestmacoit, Esq. 



Four fresco paintings from Pompeii, formeriy in the Hon. Sir William Temple's Col- 

 lection at Naples, presented by His Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies. 



The Vizor of a Gladiator's Helmet, in bronze. 



A marble Sepulchral Urn, inscribed to L. Rvfivs Agricola, presented by Mr. Chapman, 



One-half of an Ivory Diptych, known as the Gherardesca Diptych, It represents, in 

 bas relief, the apotheosis of a personage, conjectured to be M. Aurelius Romulus, who died 

 while Consul, a.d. 309, during the reign of his father, Maxentius, and received divine honours, 



IV. British Collection.— A Stone Celt, with its original wooden handle, found in the 

 Solvvay Moss; presented by Sir George Musgrave, Bart. 



A very fine Bronze Shield, elaborately embossed, and ornamented with enamels, probably 

 late Celtic ; found in the Thames. 



Thirteen Irish Gold Ornaments, found at Newmarket, Co. Clare. 



A Twisted Gold Armlet, found in Scotland. 



Various antiquities, principally Roman and Romano-British, excavated at Dowker bottom 

 cave, near Arncliffe, Yorkshire ; presented by Henrv Farrer, Esq. 



One leaf of a Tabula honesU missionis, granted" by the Emperor Hadrian to veterans of 

 various detachments stationed in Britain under Platorius Nepos. It was found at Stan- 

 mngton, Yorkshire, and has been presented by Thomas Yonge, Esq. 



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