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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 whole of the galle¬ 
ries in any but a temporary manner. Until the new rooms designed 
for the later Greek and Roman Sculptures are completed, objects which 
it is intended 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 pro¬ 
gress of the works without impeding the access of visitors and students, 
would render any detailed description of a large portion of the col¬ 
lection inapplicable to their position after the lapse of a few weeks or 
months. Those objects, therefore, which are now being, or intended 
forthwith to be, transferred to new situations, are mentioned only 
generally in the following account. 
ROOM I. 
This room, which it is proposed eventually to give up to Roman 
Iconography and Anglo-Roman Antiquities, is at present partly occupied 
by a portion 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 w T all: 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 unhewn stone, having in the centre a small hole; dis¬ 
covered in 1831, at Harpenden, near St. Alban’s. In this sarcophagus 
w r ere found a glass vase, and four 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 iEsculapius 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 
* All the objects mentioned in the description of this and of the two succeeding 
Rooms, 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. 
