86 DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES. [ROMAN 
Underneath: ancient sarcophagus of cylindrical shape, with base and 
cover of rude unhewn stone, having in the centre a small hole; dis¬ 
covered in 1831, at Harpenden, near St. Alban’s. In this sarcophagus 
were found a glass vase, and four small vases of red Roman ware, 
which are incorporated in the> collection of smaller Anglo-Roman 
Antiquities in the British and Medieval Room. Presented by C, W, 
Packe, Esq ,, M. P. , 1843. 
Front of First Pilaster. —A Roman altar to ^sculapjus and For- 
tuna Redux, erected by some freedmen and slaves on the restoration 
of their master to health. On one side are the rod and snake of 
.^Esculapius and sacrificial instruments. On the other are the cornu- 
copice and rudder of Fortune, a patera and jug. Found near the 
Watergate, Chester, in 1779; presented by Sir Ph. de Malpas Grey 
Egerton, Part., 1836. 
COMPARTMENT II. 
On the wall: four other portions of the Withington pavement, repre¬ 
senting birds and animals. 
Underneath : three Roman altars, with bas-reliefs in front, one re¬ 
presenting Ceres, the other two Mars or Romulus. Found at King 
Stanley, in Gloucestershire; presented by the Pev. P. Hawker, 1812. 
Two other altars very similar. 
Plain Roman altar. Found by Dr. Ormerod in a tumulus. Led- 
bury Park, Monmouthshire. Presented by the Archceological Institute 
of Great Britain and Ireland, 1851. 
Front of Second Pilaster. —An altar with a Greek inscription, de¬ 
dicated by Diodora, a high priestess, to the Tyrian Hercules; on one 
side is a bull’s head, on the other a sacrificing knife, and crown. 
Found at Corbridge, Northumberland, Presented by the Duke of 
Northumberland, in 1774. 
COMPARTMENT III*. 
On the wall: two more portions of the Withington pavement, and a 
fragment of the border of a tesselated pavement discovered at Wood- 
chester, Gloucestershire. Presented by Samuel Lysons. Esq., 1808. 
Underneath : Roman sarcophagus, discovered at Binstead, in Hamp¬ 
shire. It contained, when found, several very small earthen vessels. 
Presented by Henry Long, Esq., 1851. 
A stone sarcophagus found at South fleet, in Kent, within the site of 
a building fifty feet square, in the year 1831 ; in the sarcophagus were 
two glass vessels, each containing burnt bones, and much liquid; be¬ 
tween them two pairs of shoes of purple leather embroidered with 
gold. Near the sarcophagus were found the remains of a wooden box, 
with the brass clamps and round-headed brass nails by w^hich it was 
held together, and with them two bottles of red pottery, and two pans 
of the same, on w^hich were some ashes and two small rib bones. At 
some little distance was found a globular earthen vessel, which con¬ 
tained some burnt bones, and the remains of a small glass bottle, and. 
is capable of holding about six gallons. All these objects are pre¬ 
served in the British Room up-stairs. Presented by the Rev. J. 
Rashleigh, in 1836. 
Front of Third Pilaster. —Six Roman pigs of lead, viz.:— 
