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DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES. 
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• Egypt. The arrangement of the four principal series of 
sculptures may be stated generally as follows : the Koman, 
including the mixed class termed Grseco-Roman, occupies the 
South , side, running East- and West : the Greek, strictly so 
called, the Assyrian, and the Egyptian, form, approximately^ 
three parallel lines, running North and South, at right angles 
to the Roman. To the left of the Hall, on entering the 
building, is the 
ROMAN GALLERY. 
On the South side, under tlie windov/s, are miscellaneous 
Roman antiquities discovered in this country. On' the op- 
posite side is the series of Roman Iconographical or portrait 
Sculptures, whether statues or busts. Each wall is divided by 
pilasters into six compartments. 
ANGLO-ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 
Immediately to the left of the door, on entering, are seven Pigs of 
lead, marked with Roman names, which specify either the mines from 
which the metal was obtained, or the Emperors, or local authorities, by 
whose licence it was worked and sold. 
Against the walls are mosaic or tesselated Pavements. 
The oblong piece in Compartment I., decorated with a figure of 
Neptune, amidst fishes and marine monsters, was found in the ruins of 
a Roman villa at Witbington, Gloucestershire. The large pieces in 
Compartment II., and the two smaller pieces, to the left hand, in Com- 
partment III., originally formed part of the same pavement, though 
the space does not admit of placing them in juxtaposition. 
The right-hand fragment in Compartment III. was discovered at 
Woodchester, in the same county. 
In each of the first four Compartments stands a Sarcophagus, 
which, like most monuments of Roman sculpture found in this country, 
exhibits, more or less, the rudeness of provincial art. Within the Sarco- 
phagus in Compartment IV. (which was discovered in London) was 
found a leaden coffin, the lid of which may now be seen above the 
Sarcophagus. Within the three other Sarcophagi, were discovered 
various remains, consisting chiefly of vases of glass or red earthen- 
ware, and in one instance a pair of richly-embroidered shoes, all of 
which are exhibited in glass cases in the British. Room. 
The large scroll in Compartment V. is probably an ornament from 
the cover of a Sarcophagus. It was found (with the fragment of a 
Mill stone, now placed beside it, and the first two Inscriptions, which are 
sepulchral memorials, in Compartment VL), at the foot of the old 
Roman wall of London. 
