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PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

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A Lamp with the head of a Warrior.

Pablished as the Act directs, Jan J2.1796, by B.B., J. White .

J. Barten Kuly.

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his hands, to hide a convulfive fit of tears, and the fhame of
being defeated.
The expreffion in thefe two figures is afto-

nishing. An elegant border furrounds the whole, and on the

reverse of the lamp

L. CESAR.

is ftamped in very legible characters.

4. A SMALL lamp in Nola clay, with a horfe in mezzo L. WITH A Horse. relievo.

RIOR'S HEAD.

5. A BEAUTIFUL lamp, of red clay, with a remarkably fine L. WITH A WARhead in relief; representing a warrior, accompanied by an inftrument of facrifice.

6. A FIGURE of Ifis, one of the Egyptian Penates, carved in ftone, and covered with hieroglyphics.

7. A SIMILAR figure, formed of blue antique paste, of the fame kind which the ancients ufed in their Mofaics, known to Italians by the name of fritta. This figure is also covered with hieroglyphics.

ISIS, A SMALL
FIGURE.

ANOTHER.

BLES.

To these may be added others, which I have defcribed in the first volume of my Tour in Wales. Those which are foreign, are feveral marbles brought from Narbonne, the Narbo Martius. It NARBONNE MARis one of the moft ancient cities in Gaul, for it was a flourishing place two hundred and eighty years before the Chriftian era. A Roman colony was eftablifhed there in the time of Marcius Rex, from whom it received its addition. It is full of antiquities, which have been used in the various modern buildings. Thofe in queftion came from the walls of the archbishop's palace; and were brought here by the late Sir Thomas Moftyn. The engraving,

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