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eieling unhurt. In the walls of it there was a table 
of white marble fattened in the wall itfelf, which 
we might call a fide-board, and which was ex- 
tended along the fweep of the room. Upon this 
table was found a crefcent of filver, about y inches 
in diameter, and on the edge of its middle there are 
two fmall holes to receive a ttring to fupport it. Per- 
haps this was an amulet, for we have another of the 
fame metal, but fmaller, with its lupporter of filver, 
which hath been long found. Upon the fame table 
there was another amulet of filver about an inch 
in hight, which reprelents Harpocrates. This fi- 
gure hath its finger near its mouth, the lotus on 
its head, and wings on its fhoulders. On the 
right fhoulder hangs a quiver, and its left arm holds 
a horn of plenty, and leans upon the trunk of a tree, 
round which there is a ferpent, and at the foot of 
the trunk there ttands an owl. There was found 
a kind of fibula, for fuch I take it to be, which is 
of gold, and is extremely well preferved. Its form 
is round, and made like a great button. On the 
back there is a gold wire fattened to one fide; the 
other end of which is fattened in a fmall piece of 
gold, that is foldered into the fibula. The whole is 
little more than an inch in diameter. There are found 
alfo two other figures ; one is of marble about a foot 
high, and reprefents a woman ; it is of no great va- 
lue: the other is of ivory, but there remains nothing 
but the name, and a part of the face, by which may 
be perceived, that it is the work of an excellent Greek 
hand. All the rett confifts as it were of minute leaves, 
which are fo brittle that they cannot be united. Its 
hight is about a foot. 
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