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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
The extensive acquisitions that have recently been made in the 
Department of Antiquities, and the alterations and enlargements of 
the building, required to provide for the Assyrian and other collec¬ 
tions, have made it impossible as yet to arrange the galleries in any but 
a temporary manner. Until the new rooms designed for the later 
Greek and Roman Sculptures are completed, objects which it is in¬ 
tended ultimately to collect, and exhibit in chronological sequence, are 
necessarily scattered. The frequent removal of the marbles from 
room to room, which is necessary to facilitate the progress of the works 
without impeding the access of visitors and students, would render any 
detailed description of a large portion of the collection inapplicable 
to their position after the lapse of a few weeks or months. Those ob¬ 
jects, therefore, w'hich are now being, or intended forthwith to be, 
transferred to new situations, are mentioned only generally in the fol¬ 
lowing account. 
ROOM I. 
This room, which it is proposed eventually to give up to the British 
and Anglo-Roman Antiquities, is at present partly occupied by a por¬ 
tion of the collection of the late Charles Towneley, Esq.* 
Immediately to the left of the door on entering is the front, of a tomb, 
'inscribed with the name of Tryphon, son of Eutychus, who is repre¬ 
sented in high relief, holding a strigil in his right hand. From Athens. 
Immediately to the right of the door is the front of a tomb, on which 
are sculptured in relief two youthful male figures, apparently an athlete 
and slave. From Delos . Presented by A. E. Impey , Esq., 1825. 
The wall under the windows is divided into six compartments, five 
of which are occupied by the 
ANGLO-ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 
COMPARTMENT I. 
On the wall, a portion of a tesselated pavement, discovered at With- 
ington, Gloucestershire, representing the head of Neptune. Pre¬ 
sented by H. Brooke , Esq., 1812. 
Underneath, ancient sarcophagus of cylindrical shape, with base and 
cover of rude unhewm 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 tour small vases of red Roman ware, 
which are incorporated in the collection of British Antiquities. Pre¬ 
sented by C. W. Packe, Esq., M.P., 1843. 
Front of First Pilaster. —A Roman altar to ^sculapius 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 
* AU the objects mentioned in the description of this and of the succeeding 
Room, of which the former proprietors are not specified, belonged to the Towneley 
collection. More ample descriptions, with Plates, of a considerable portion of 
these sculptures, have been published in Parts. References to the Parts, and to 
the Plates, are here annexed to the notices of the objects themselves. 
