Minutes of meeting, 20 March 1777
Reference code
SAL/02/015/018
Title
Minutes of meeting, 20 March 1777
Date
20/3/1777
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Account of stone coffins with their contents discovered near Acombe in Yorkshire, opinion concerning their antiquity and singular position.
An account of a small bark sailing cut in Grecian marble, in bas relief, found on the Isle of Lesnia on the coast of Dalmatia.
John Strange communicates several Roman inscriptions observed in the Venetian State.
The ancient names of the river Piave running near Belluno.
The source of the river Timavus.
Sir Walter Rawlinson communicates an account of a play ticket of ivory found at Herculaneum with the word XII AICXULOV [Aeschylus] on it.
Pliny charged with several typographical mistakes; several MS copies of this author vary also greatly.
Edward King exhibits a singular brick and a rude earthen lachrymatory of an uncommon shape found in 1776 near Colchester.
The following Fellows were admitted to the Society: Lord Brownlow
An account of a small bark sailing cut in Grecian marble, in bas relief, found on the Isle of Lesnia on the coast of Dalmatia.
John Strange communicates several Roman inscriptions observed in the Venetian State.
The ancient names of the river Piave running near Belluno.
The source of the river Timavus.
Sir Walter Rawlinson communicates an account of a play ticket of ivory found at Herculaneum with the word XII AICXULOV [Aeschylus] on it.
Pliny charged with several typographical mistakes; several MS copies of this author vary also greatly.
Edward King exhibits a singular brick and a rude earthen lachrymatory of an uncommon shape found in 1776 near Colchester.
The following Fellows were admitted to the Society: Lord Brownlow
Creator
Society of Antiquaries of London
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