ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. I7 



3. Another stele, with the same date as the last two Inscriptions, and also with the 

 name of C. Asinius Gallus erased. This inscription marks the breadth of" a road and a 

 watercourse togethei'. From the peridolns wall. 



4. Slab with a dedication by the Senate and people as neohoros to the Emperor Trajan. 

 It is dated in the ^H'O-consulship of Vettius Proculus, which Waddington (Fastes, •^. 181) 

 places A. D. 112. 



5. Inscription containing mention of the pro-consul Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, appa- 

 rently the same Fuscus Salinator who, according to Waddington (Fastes, p. 16L>), was 

 consul A. r>. 118. 



6. Dedication, probably of a statue, to Attldius Fuscus, prsetor and legate, who is 

 styled generosos and eugenestalos. 



7. Decree of the senate and people of Ephesus, honouring a comic actor for his virtue 

 and skill. Mention is also made of the sacred games at Ephesus called Artemisia. 



8. List of names below which is a dedication in elegiac verse by a sophist, who seems 

 to have been invited from Athens to settle at Ephesus by a decree of the senate. 



9. Slab from an aqueduct or fountain which, the inscription says, was made by Claudius 

 Diogenes to convey water from the Marnas. A personification of the Marnas occurs on 

 coins of Ephesus. Its local position is unknown. 



10. Sepulchral tablet of a .lew Avhose name Hellenized Is Marmoussios [Mar Moses?], 

 son of Jair, erected by sorrowing Jews (K/jSovrat ol 'louSatot). 



11. Sepulchral tablet in honour of Nemerius, son of Nemerius Flammas. 



12. Altar dedicated by T. Calpurnius Quintianus Africanus to L. Calpumius; below, 

 an inscription in elegiac verse. 



13. Bilingual inscription, published. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum III, No. 6574, 

 in which occurs the title Praefectus VIgilum, here written Vigulum. 



14. Latin inscription, published Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum III., No. 6575, con- 

 cerning the Procurator T. CI. Paplria Xenophou. 



15. Latin inscription, containing mention of one Paulus who was verna arcarius, a title 

 which occurs on another Latin inscription previously found at Ephesus. 



Among the smaller antiquities found during the excavations on the site of the Temple 



are- 



(1.) A burnt carnelian Intaglio, with bronze setting; subject, Victory crowning an 

 athlete. 



(2.) A number of axe-heads and other tools In iron. 



(3.) Fragments of painted fictile ware. 



(4.) Small head of a male figure in calcareous stone, with traces of colour similar to the 

 heads found In Cyprus by Messrs. Cesnola and Lang, and of the same period as the head 

 and statues from Branchldte already referred to. 



(5.j A small terra-cotta figure, rather Egyptian in style. This and the preceding object 

 were found on the level of the pavement of the earlier Temple. 



C. T. Newton. 



Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement. 



The mounting of Indian sculptures on stone pedestals has been continued, as well as 

 the arrangement of these sculptures, which had been interrupted by works connected 

 with ventilation, in the basement which they occupy. 



A collection of 27 British urns, found in the parish of Ashford, Middlesex, has been 

 repaired, and jilaced In cases In the British Room, of which the fittings have been altered 

 to receive them. 



The registration of antiquities has been continued ; 57 antiquities have been mounted 

 on tablets. 



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