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club in his left hand and the apples of the Hesperides in his right 
hand. 
No. 63. A Greek sepulchral monument, with a bas-relief, and an 
inscription to Exacestes and Metra his wife. 
No. 64. The front of a votive altar, with an inscription for the safe 
return of Septimius Severus and his family from some expedition. 
The parts in the inscription which are erased contained the name of 
Geta, which, by a severe edict of Caracalla, was ordered to be erased 
from every inscription throughout the Roman empire. 
Upon it, is a small statue of a Muse, sitting on a rock and playing 
on a lyre. 
No. 65. A head of Domitia, formerly called Messalina, the fifth 
wife of the Emperor Claudius. It was found in the Villa Casali, upon 
the Esquiline Hill, in 1775. 
No. 66. A statue three feet ten inches high, ending from the waist 
downwards in a terminus. In the right hand is a bunch of grapes, at 
which a bird, held under the left arm, is pecking. It was found in 
1774, on some swampy ground near the lake of Nemi. 
No. 67. A votive altar, with a dedicatory inscription to Bona Dea 
Annianensis. 
No. 68. A head of Jupiter Serapis. It bears a modius. The 
paint with which the face was originally coloured is still discernible. 
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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 Southfleet, 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 
cornucopia 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 King’s Stanley, in Gloucestershire, and presented by 
the Rev. Peter Hawker. 
A pig of lead, with the name of the Emperor Domitian t inscribed 
upon it. It weighs 154 pounds. It was discovered, 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. 
