pillar (Serapeum) the identity of this type is beyond any doubt (fig. 355).

From a deep grotto, the ingress to which is surrounded by rugged rocks, one can see the forepart of the monster emerging unwillingly dragged out. A personage, moving towards the left, of whom

however the left arm only exists, holds the monster under restraint and drags him along by a big linked chain fixed on to a collar. It is clear that we are in the presence of a reproduction of the twelfth and last labour of Hercules, namely the rape of Cerberus brought back on earth subdued and chained by the hero. The fragment is therefore very interesting, but apart from that it is of paramount importance

to observe that the three heads of the monster are easily recognizable as the lion's head (in the centre) much bigger than the lateral ones; as the dog's head on the left, and turned up barking; as of the wolf's head on the right. The whole body is encircled by the serpent's coils. We find thus reproduced with great exactness the type described by Macrobius.

On closely observing fig. 44 at p. 111 which I have wrongly described as Cerberus with three dogs' heads, one can recognize instead the Cerberus of the new type. Our bronze which is of a fine workmanship resembles very much, if it is not identical to, the bronze of the British Museum, in which, if one bears in mind the passage of Macrobius' book already quoted, the three heads can with certainty be identified as those of a lion, a dog and a wolf. This representation of Cerberus, however, is not the only one existing in our Museum. The same type should be recognized in some terracottas coming from Kóm elShugafa (see Room 19, glass A, nos. 10717 and 18358), on several handles of big lamps bearing in relief | the image of Sarapis with his monstruous companion near him (see Room 19, glass B) as well as on a marble group of about one third of its natural size, which is unfortunately mutilated (see Room 16, no. 3913).

Lastly I would mention that the Cerberus with a single lion's head and with a lion's body, encircled by the coils of the serpent, the forepart of which is above the lion's head and is crowned with a calathus (p. 113, fig. 46), is not represented in our collection by one exemplar only, but by two (Room 12,

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glass 7, no. 3504). See also, for the single-headed Cerberus, the mummy case reproduced at page 166, fig. 74, second picture.

Page 123 add, before GREEK AND ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS. Stones (or Plates) for grinding meal; presented by Dr. Cummington (of Devizes). Found in the Desert of Sahara 400-500 Kilom. south from the Mediterranean littoral, between the Oases of Siwa and Jarabub.

In this district, comprising the Oases of Gara, Gerba, Jarabub, Kharga, Dakla and Fayum, Capt. Williams and St. Buxton Davidson of the Light Car Patrols have found implements representing Periods from the earliest Palaeolithic (Chellean) down to the Acheulean and Neolithic Solutrean. These periods cover two glacial epochs with their wide changes of temperature and submergence. The time covered is estimated at 400.000 to 2.000.000 years. [H. W. SETON KARR].