LYCIAN ROOM. 
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A pig of lead, inscribed with the name of L. Aruconius Verecundus, 
and the letters metal, lvtvd, probably the mine of Lutudce. Found 
near Matlock Bank, in Derbyshire. Presented by A. Woolley and 
P. Nightingale , Esqs. 
A pig of lead, inscribed cl . tr . lvt . br . ex . arg, found with 
three other pigs, and some broken Roman pottery, at Broomer’s 
Hill, in the parish of Pulborough, Sussex, January 31, 1824, close to 
the Roman road, Stone Street, from London to Chichester. For a 
pig of lead with a similar inscription, found on Matlock Moor, Derby¬ 
shire, see Archseologia, ix. p. 45. Presented by the Earl of Egremont 9 
July 10, 1824. 
A pig of lead, inscribed M . P . roscieis . m . f . maic. Found 
at Carthagena in Spain. Presented by Viscount Palmerston, 1849. 
An altar with a Greek inscription, dedicated 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. 
LYCIAN ROOM. 
The Sculptures in this Room consist of the remains of ancient cities 
in Lycia, one of the south-west provinces of Asia Minor, inhabited by 
a mixed population of an aboriginal race called Solymi and Termilae, 
and by the Greeks, who had colonised it at an early period before the 
epoch of the Trojan war. These monuments w r ere removed from 
that country by two expeditions undertaken by Her Majesty’s Govern¬ 
ment in the years 1842—1846, under the directions of Sir C. Fellows, 
by whom the greater part of them were discovered. They consist of 
sculptured remains, ranging in date from the subjugation of the country 
by the Persians, b.c. 545, to the period of the Byzantine Empire. 
With them are exhibited some plaster casts of certain other sculptures, 
of which the removal w 7 as not found practicable, but of which facsimiles 
were necessary as illustrations of the history of art, and as documents 
for the study of a language and written character found in Lycia, and 
apparently peculiar to that part of Asia Minor. 
No. 1. Bas-reliefs from the so-called Harpy tomb, which stood on 
the Acropolis of Xanthus, close to the Theatre. The sculptures, as will 
be seen by the model placed near it, decorated the four sides of a 
rectangular solid shaft, about seventeen feet high, weighing eighty 
tons, and supported a roof with a moulding, inclosing a chamber seven 
feet six inches square, entered by a small low door on the west side. 
This monument was never finished, the projection for raising the shaft 
still remaining, and the shaft having been polished only half w 7 ay up. 
Its base was shaken, probably by one of those earthquakes by which 
the country is known to have been visited, and two of the slabs on the 
western side were found throwm on the ground. Various conjectural 
explanations of the sculptures have been proposed. The scene on the 
west side [5] has been supposed to represent Hera or Juno seated, and 
holding a cup before the sacred cow of Io and Epaphus, Aphrodite, and 
the three Charites or Graces; others consider that the tw r o seated 
