Archaeologia cantiana . Fig. of medallions and mouldings covered 166 EOMAN COFFINS OF LEAD the lid, the sides, and the ends. The raised mouldingsarc, uniformly, composed of alternate narrow ringsand long beads. Each long head is thicker in themiddle than at its extremities, both of wliich arcinvariably capped by one of the narrow rings. Bymeans of this moulding,* the lid is divided intoseveral rectangular compartments, within each ofwhich it is again used in the shape of an X. Everyone of the triangular spaces, thus formed within therectangular divisions of the lid, contains a m
Archaeologia cantiana . Fig. of medallions and mouldings covered 166 EOMAN COFFINS OF LEAD the lid, the sides, and the ends. The raised mouldingsarc, uniformly, composed of alternate narrow ringsand long beads. Each long head is thicker in themiddle than at its extremities, both of wliich arcinvariably capped by one of the narrow rings. Bymeans of this moulding,* the lid is divided intoseveral rectangular compartments, within each ofwhich it is again used in the shape of an X. Everyone of the triangular spaces, thus formed within therectangular divisions of the lid, contains a medallionof Medusas head, as shewn in Eig. 1, and enlarged,in Eig. 1 a. Within this co£, lying upon the left. Fig. 1 , there was a long, slender phial, 5| inches inheight. Outside the coffin, there was a glass vessel ofpeculiar form (see Eig. 2). It is 8^ inches high, and
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