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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ROOM VII. 
hand is a bunch of grapes, at which a bird, held under 
the left arm, is pecking. 
No. 67. A votive altar, with a dedicatory inscription 
to Bona Dea Annianensis. 
No. 68. A head of Jupiter Serapis. The paint with 
which the face was originally coloured is still discernible. 
SEVENTH ROOM. 
BRITISH ANTIQUITIES. 
A stone sarcophagus. In it were two glass vessels, 
each containing burnt bones, and much liquid ; between 
them, two pair 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 which it had been held together, and with 
them two bottles of red pottery and two pans of the same, 
on which were some ashes, and two small rib bones. 
At some little distance was found the large globular 
earthen vessel. It contained some burnt bones, and 
the remains of a small glass bottle. It is capable of 
containing about six gallons. These were all found at 
Southrleet, in 1801, within the site of an old building 
about fifty feet square, and were presented to the British 
Museum by the Rev. George Rashleigh , 1836. 
A small Roman altar, with a bas-relief, in front, of 
Ceres holding a cornucopias and pouring incense from 
a patera upon an altar. 
A small Roman altar, with a bas-relief in front, of 
Mars or a Roman general, holding a spear and shield. 
A small Roman altar, similarly decorated with the 
preceding. These three were found at Kingstanley, in 
Gloucestershire, and presented by the Rev . Peter Hawker . 
A pig of lead, with the name of the Emperor Domitian 
inscribed upon it. It weighs 154 pounds. It was dis¬ 
covered, in the year 1731, under ground, on Hayshaw 
Moor, in the manor of Dacre, in the West Riding of 
Yorkshire. Bequeathed by Sir John Ingilby , Bart ., and 
presented by his Executors in 1772. 
A pig of lead, inscribed with the name of L. Aruconius 
Verecundus. It weighs 81 pounds. It was found near 
