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ROMAN GALLERY. 
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 
were found a glass vase, and four small vases of red Roman ware, 
which are incorporated in the collection of smaller Anglo-Roman 
Antiquities in the British and Medieval Room. Presented by C. W. 
Packe , j 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 
jEsculapius and sacrificial instruments. * On the other are the cornu - 
copice and rudder of Fortune, a patera and jug. Found near the 
Watergate, Chester, in 1779; presented by Sir Ph. de Malpas Grey 
Egerton , Bart., 1836. 
COMPARTMENT II. 
On the wall: four other portions of the Withington pavement, repre¬ 
senting birds and animals. 
Underneath: three Roman altars, with bas-reliefs in front, one re¬ 
presenting Ceres, the other two Mars or Romulus. Found at King 
Stanley , in Gloucestershire; presented by the Rev. P. Hawker, 1812. 
Two other altars very similar. 
Plain Roman altar. Found by Dr. Ormerod in a tumulus , Led¬ 
bury Park , Monmouthshire. Presented by the Archeological Institute 
of Great Britain and Ireland, 1851. 
Front of Second Pilaster. —An altar with a Greek inscription, de¬ 
dicated 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. 
COMPARTMENT III. 
On the wall: two more portions of the Withington pavement, and a 
fragment of the border of a tesselated pavement discovered at Wood- 
chester, Gloucestershire. Presented by Samuel Lysons, Esq., 1808. 
Underneath: Roman sarcophagus, discovered at Binstead, in Hamp¬ 
shire. It contained, when found, several very small earthen vessels. 
Presented by Henry Long, Esq., 1851. 
A stone sarcophagus found at Southfleet, in Kent, within the site of 
a building fifty feet square, in the year 1831 ; in the sarcophagus were 
two glass vessels, each containing burnt bones, and much liquid ; be¬ 
tween them two pairs 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 was 
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 a globular earthen vessel, which con¬ 
tained some burnt bones, and the remains of a small glass bottle, and 
is capable of holding about six gallons. All these objects are pre¬ 
served in the British Room up-stairs. Presented by the Rev. J . 
Rashleigh, in 1836. 
Front of Third Pilaster. —Six Roman pigs of lead, viz.:— 
