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ANCIENT ROMAN SKULL.
PEOM THE SARCOPHAGUS OE THEODORIANUS OE NOMENTUM, AT YORK.
( T O E K , — T H E SOMAN EBVRACUM, FIEST TO F I FTH OENTTJET A.D.)
Cranium from the Sarcophagus of " Theodorianus."—Quarter-size.
An inscribed Eoman stone cofian, deposited by its present owner, Mr. W. A. Waddington, in the
Museum of the Yorkshii-e Philosophical Society, was discovered many years since, in the-arden
of the late Mr. R. Driffield, at the Momt near York, and less than half a mile from the southwest
gate of the city. The whole of this neighbourhood, which was the line of the Eoman road
connectmg Eburacum with Calcai-ia, and the other stations and cities to the south and west is
most productive in sepulchi-al remains of the Roman period; and, as Mr. WeUbeloved, the
historian of Eoman York, has pointed out, must have been the principal " street of the tombs "
in the Eoman age.
Sarcophagus of" Theodoriams."
In the garden, where this coffin was found, numerous urns, pater®, a lamp, and other
sepulchral remains had been discovered in 1808, proving this to have been part of an extensive
cemetery. Not far distant, is the sepulchral chamber discovered in 1807 ; and another inscribed
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