ROOMS II.-VIII.] 
ARTICLES. 
11 
EIGHTH ROOM. 
The Cases No. 1 and 2, together with a table Case, 
contain a collection of impressions from ancient seals, 
royal, baronial, monastic, ecclesiastical (not monastic), 
municipal, and private, recently made for and presented 
to the Museum by Mr. John Doubleday. 
The Case No. 3 contains a large collection of bronze 
and flint Celts, Spear-heads, and Arrow-heads; the greater 
part of the flint arrow-heads and celts found in Ireland. 
Case 4 contains a collection of Hindoo Bronzes, and an 
assemblage of ancient Chess-men found in the sands upon 
the coast of one of the Western Islands of Scotland. 
The Vases and other articles upon all the Cases, and 
the contents of Cases 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, with the Hindoo 
Bronzes upon the shelf between the windows, were be¬ 
queathed to the British Museum , by the late R. P. Knight , 
Esq. 
Case 5. 
Div. A. Glass Vessels and painted Earthen Vases. 
Div. B. Painted Earthen Vases. 
Div. C. Painted Earthen Vessels and a Bronze Vessel 
or Lebes, with an inscription intimating that it was a prize 
to be contended for in some game. 
Div. D. Large covered Vessel which was found with 
the one on the shelf above in a tomb in the territory of 
Cumea in Italy ; both were probably obtained as prizes by 
the person in whose tomb they were deposited. Candela¬ 
bra. Cupid. Priest. Spear of the 16th century, decorated 
with the portraits of Alexander de Medici and his Duchess, 
under whose patronage it was executed. 
Case 6. 
Div. A. Portrait of Bion, broken from a bust or statue. 
Portrait, supposed of Diomede, also broken from a statue. 
Mutilated figure of Bacchus. 
Div. B. fEsculapius between two Gryphons. Two 
Aliptes or Anointers; they have been handles or stands 
for Mirrors. Head of an Amazon. Three heads of 
Ammon; two have been weights, one, part of a vase handle. 
Anubis. Ten figures or heads of Apollo ; the one to the 
right hand, as in the act of bending his bow, being pro- 
