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ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 
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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, 
tln^ee 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 the windows, are miscellaneous 
Roman antiquities discovered in this country, belonging to the 
Department of British Antiquities. On the opposite side is 
the series of Roman Iconographical or portrait Sculptures, 
whether statues or busts, forming part of the Department of 
Greek and Roman Antiquities. Each wall is divided by 
pilasters into six com.partments. 
ANGLO-ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 
Immediately to the left of the door, on entering, are 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 
license it was worked and sold. 
Against the walls are mosaic or tessellated 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 Withington, 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-ornamented shoes, all of 
which are exhibited in glass cases in the British Room and Second 
Egyptian 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 on it, and two sepulchral Inscriptions, in 
Compartment VI.) at the foot of the old Roman wall of London. 
In the intervening spaces are placed Roman Altars. 
Against four of the pilasters on this side stand Ogham Inscriptions, 
