=Woodworking, etc.=--An interesting wooden box of Roman date is derived from Panticapaeum, in the Crimea (No. =554=). This has two sliding lids, above and below respectively, each furnished with two catches. The interior was divided by a horizontal partition, and was again subdivided into numerous small divisions. An inlaid pattern decorates the border of the box. Another box of simpler construction (No. =555=) was found in a grave in Bulgaria. Various specimens of fretwork in jet and ivory are shown, and two pieces of an egg and tongue moulding, carved in wood, and coloured with scarlet and gilding, from a sarcophagus, also found at Panticapaeum (No. =555*=). =The Lathe.=--In the next division are examples of work finished on the lathe, in a variety of materials, as marble, alabaster, coloured stones, crystal, bronze, ivory, bone, and wood; also a rough piece of alabaster from Cyprus, derived from a lathe mandrel. [Footnote 64: _Il._ xviii. 600 ff.] XIX.--MEDICINE AND SURGERY. (Table-Case H.) =Greek Medicine.=--From the earliest times, as indicated by passages in the Homeric poems, the Greeks practised simple forms of surgery in such matters as the treatment of the wounded.[65] In the historic age of Greece we find temple or wonder-working medicine, practised in temples of Asklepios, especially at Epidaurus; and at the same time a school of medicine, of the Asklepiadae, seated in the island of Kos. A lively account of temple-healing is given in the _Plutus_ of Aristophanes, where the slave Karion relates the experiences of his master and himself when passing the night in the temple.[66] Examples of the votive offerings deposited in the temples by those who had been made whole have been mentioned in the section on Religion and Superstition, p. 47 ff., and are to be seen in Cases 103-106. [Illustration: FIG. 223.--GREEK SURGEON AT WORK (NO. 556).]