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at Ityblus, in Phoenicia ; an Apollo from Paramythia ; a Hercules, found 
at Bavay, in France, and a silver vase of the late Roman period, also 
found in France, and ornamented in low relief with the Seasons. 
Case D contains a number of select bronzes, among which may be 
noticed the bronzes of Siris, two shoulder-pieces of Greek armour 
found in Magna Graecia, and ornamented with groups in relief in the 
finest style ; a bronze mirror in a highly ornamented frame of unusual 
size, found at Locri ; a mirror, on which is engraved the meeting of 
Helen and Menelaus at the taking of Troy ; a group of Boreas and 
Oreithyia, from a tomb in the island of Calymnos ; figures and ani- 
mals in relief, embossed in silver, and forming part of the ornament 
of an Etruscan chariot found at Perugia ; a lamp in the form of a grey- 
hound's head, from Nocera ; Ceres in a rustic car, from Amelia in 
Etruria ; a hare inscribed with a very ancient dedication to Apollo ; a 
bronze plate from Elis, inscribed with a treaty between two tribes, and 
a decree of the people of Corcyra. 
Table Case C contains Etruscan mirrors, on which various mytho- 
logical subjects are engraved. Case A contains armlets, fibulae, and 
various personal ornaments and trappings. Case F, locks, keys, and 
a variety of small implements. 
C. T. NEWTON. 
BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ROOM. 
This room contains three collections : — the British, consisting 
of Antiquities found in Great Britain and Ireland, extending 
from the earliest periods to the Norman Conquest, the Early 
Christian, and the Medieval, comprising all remains of the 
Middle Ages, both English and Foreign. 
BRITISH COLLECTION. 
This Collection is arranged, as far as possible, in chronolo- 
gical order, as follows : — 
Cases 1-42. British Antiquities, anterior to the Romans. 
Cases 43—75. Roman Antiquities found in Britain. 
Cases 7G-97. Anglo-Saxon Antiquities. 
BRITISH ANTIQUITIES. 
The remains of the inhabitants of the British islands, pre- 
vious to the Roman invasion, embrace the Stone, Bronze, and 
;i portion of tlie Iron period of Northern Antiquaries. They 
have, for convenience, been classed according to their materials, 
