ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH JIUSKU 



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Sculptures. — (1.) A female head, rather larger than life, in fair condition, and probably 

 of the Roman period, found in the Odeuin. 



(2.) A small statue of Venus in the attitude of the Venus of Medicis, but differing 

 from that statue and from the Venus of the Capitol in the head-dress and accessories. 

 This statuette is well preserved, but the proportions are clumsy and the execution pro- 

 vincial. It is not probably of an earlier period than the third century a. d. From the 

 Great Theatre. 



(3.) Relief, representing a Triton blowing a shell. 



(4.) A male torso, about life size, of a good period. 



(5.) Two small torsoes, one male, the other from a draped female figure. 



(6) A colossal foot in a sandal. 



(7.) A smaller foot in a sandal, of a good jieriod. 



Inscriptions. — (1.) A sepulchral inscription to the memory of M. Helvius Geminus, 

 Imperial Proprastor of Asia, having sculptured on each side i\iQ fasces of his office. 



(2.) A small sarcophagus of white marble, ornamented with bulls' heads and festoons, 

 and inscribed with the name Anassa, wife or daughter of Apollonios. 



(3.) Another similar sarcophagus inscribed with the names Pannychos, his wife 

 Pithane, and his daughter, in Greek and Latin. 



(4.) An inscription, in Greek and Latin, to the memory of P. Terentius Olympus and 

 his family. 



(5.) An inscription to the memory of Faustina, who filled the office of Koeyfir^rupa of 

 Artemis, and to her husband, Menander. 



The above five inscriptions were found in excavations along the line of the ancient way 

 leading out of the city. 



(6.) The pedestal of a statue erected in honour of jEHus Marcianus Priscus, an 

 Agonothetes in the public games, probably of Ephesus. Two sides of this pedestal are 

 covered with an inscription, part of which appears to be a letter from a Proconsul named 

 Cams. 



(7.) Tablet inscribed in the name of a family of gladiators, when Tiberius Julius 

 Eheginus filled the office of Asiarch. 



(8.) Part of a decree ordered to be set up in the celebrated Temple of Diana at Ephesus. 

 This inscribed block, which was found built into the Proscenium of the Great Theatre, 

 with other similar decrees, was evidently a wall stone from the cella of the Temple of 

 Diana. 



(9.) An inscription of an early period relating to divination by the flight of birds. 

 Published by Boeckh, Corpus Inscript., No. 2,953. 



Miscellaneous Antiquities. — A number of lamps, vases, heads, and fragments of figures 

 in terracotta, ivory and bone knife-handles and pins, bronze nails, buckles, and implements, 

 among which the most remarkable is a bronze square, such as is used by mechanics for 

 marking right angles. On clearing away the ruins which encumbered the proscenium 

 and orchestra of the Great Theatre, Mr. Wood found part of the lowest storey of the 

 proscenium in position. 



Several of the blocks of which this storey was built were covered with long and inte- 

 resting inscriptions, some of which had evidently been taken from _ the Temple of Diana, 

 and used as materials for building the proscenium, which is evidently of the Roman 

 period. 



Following the lines of tombs on the ancient road leading outof one_ of the city gates, 

 Mr. Wood has discovered a number of interesting sepulchral inscriptions, some of which 

 relate to personages who held high official posts under the Roman Empire. 



In the angle formed by a bend in the ancient road, he has found a wall fortified with 

 square towers at intervals. The part of this wall already explored forms a right angle ' 

 lying to the west of the presumed line of the walls of the city. Near it have been found 

 the foundations of an ancient gate leading to the way. 



Mr. Wood also explored a mound in front of the Great Gymnasium, where he laid 

 bare part of a public building, which had been faced with fine marbles and adorned with 

 statuary. 



The following presents have been received in the Department : — , 



(1.) A collection of antiquities illustrative of the Greek and Roman bath, and 

 consisting of some choice strigils and bronze vessels used in the bath, together with 

 some glass and terracotta vases used for the same purpose, two pieces of tesselated 

 pavement, and some tiles from a hyT^ocSimi.— Presented by George Witt, Esq. 



(2.) A skull sculptured in marble, rather larger than nature, found in the ruins of 

 254. c 4 one 



