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yet proves remarkably rare in works of the sculptors and 
mosaists of this era. Repeated enquiries have only resulted 
in a knowledge of one instance in mosaic, a compartment of 
a floor probably forty feet long, in Rome, and of an example 
in fresco found at Pompeii. 
A curious plaque of copper-bronze found in the city of 
London some years ago, and figured in Mr. Roach Smith's 
" Catalogue of the Museum of London Antiquities," as also 
in his " Roman London." It is thus described :* — 
"A circular ornament (plate iii., fig. 2), engraved of the actual size, 
embossed with a design of the mystic story of Eomulus and Renius 
suckled by a wolf. It is formed of a piece of plain thin metal, in which 
copper largely predominates, shaped by stamping, and afterwards finished 
by rude chasing and frosting with a punch, and has been affixed apparently 
to wood. The birth of the fabled founders of Kome was a favourite 
subject with the ancient .artists. It often occurs on coins as a type, as 
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