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is an inscription, signifying that L. ^milius Fortunatus 
dedicates the bust to his friend. 
No. 62. A small statue of Hercules, sitting on a rock, 
with the apples of the Hesperides in his left hand. 
No. 63. A Greek sepulchral monument, with a bas- 
relief, and an inscription to Exacestes, and Metra his wife. 
No. 64. The front of a votive altar, with an inscrip¬ 
tion for the safe return of Septimius Severus and his 
family from some expedition. The parts in the inscrip¬ 
tion which are erased contained the name of Geta, which, 
by a severe edict of Caracalla, was ordered to be erased 
from every inscription throughout the Roman empire. 
Upon it, a small statue of a Muse, sitting on a rock and 
playing on a lyre. 
No. 65. A head of Domitia. 
No. 66. A statue three feet ten inches high, ending 
from the waist downwards in a terminus. In the right 
hand is a bunch of grapes, at which a bird, held under 
the left arm, is pecking. 
No. 67. A votive altar, with a dedicatory inscription 
to Bona Dea Annianensis. 
No. 68. A head of Jupiter Serapis. The paint with 
which the face was originally coloured is still discernible. 
SEVENTH ROOM. 
BRITISH ANTIQUITIES. 
A Stone sarcophagus. In it were two glass vessels, 
each containing burnt bones, and much liquid ; between 
them, two pair 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 had been 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 the large globular 
earthen vessel. It contained some burnt bones, and 
the remains of a small glass bottle. It is capable of 
containing about six gallons. These were all found at 
Southfleet, in 1801, within the site of an old building 
about fifty feet square, and were presented to the British 
Museum by the Rev* George Rashleighy 1836. 
