Archaeologia cantiana . Fig. G. of the deeper compartments is divided into three, byvertical lines formed of the bead and rings mould-ing. The central, and narrowest, division in each,contains a medallion of Medusas head (Fig. 6); whilethe two broader divisions are occupied by lines of themoulding, disposed in the shape of an X. In thecompartment which lies third, from the head of thelid, there is, beneath the lions and the vase, anadditional ornament in the shape of a sword-bladewhich has no outer, or ornamental, hilt. This, how-ever, is not repeated elsewhere. Each of the vases,upon this lid
Archaeologia cantiana . Fig. G. of the deeper compartments is divided into three, byvertical lines formed of the bead and rings mould-ing. The central, and narrowest, division in each,contains a medallion of Medusas head (Fig. 6); whilethe two broader divisions are occupied by lines of themoulding, disposed in the shape of an X. In thecompartment which lies third, from the head of thelid, there is, beneath the lions and the vase, anadditional ornament in the shape of a sword-bladewhich has no outer, or ornamental, hilt. This, how-ever, is not repeated elsewhere. Each of the vases,upon this lid, has one handle, and contains two pro-minent objects which seem to be burning torches,with some faint indications of a third object, betweenthe two. Upon a fragment of one end of the coffin,we find the lion used, not in combination with thevase, but with the Medusa medallion (Fig. 7). There 170 UOMAN COFFINS OF LEAD is no record oi the use oi the liou as an ornament. upon any other of the Roman coffins, of lead, foundin Britain, hut Mr. Roach Smith, in the third volumeof his Collectanea, mentions lions among the orna-ments of a leaden coffin found at Milhaud, nearNismes, in 1836. Outside the coffin, found in 1871, and at its head,there was a glass vessel, of uncommon form andelegance. It is somewhat like a modern claret jugof pale green glass, and is 8£ inches in height. Itsneck is 4J inches long, and three quarters of an inchwide. The diameter of its hase, or howl, is equal tothe length of the neck, heing 4|; inches, hut its capa-city for containing liquid is reduced to a minimum hythe domed shape of the hottom, which is pressed upto within an inch and a half of the neck, after themanner of, hut to a much greater degree than, amodern champagne bottle. The handle, which is re-markably broad, and grooved, terminates in a pseudo-spiral, which runs down the bowl of the vessel towithin an inch and a half of the bottom. The frontof the bowl, o
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