_In the street to the right of the College is the entrance to_ the LIBRARY VITTOR EMANUELE and Reading-room, open every day to the public, after the model of the British Museum. _On the floor above is_ THE KIRCHERIAN MUSEUM. _This museum is in a chronic state of being "arranged." The entrance fee is one lira, and the old custodians follow the visitor about as though the latter wished to eat the bronzes. On Sundays and Government festas the entry is free._ ENTRY HALL.--In a case down the centre are many highly interesting objects, mostly in bronze--early money, gems, styli, etc. The _Glandes Missiles_, or lead sling-bullets, are unique; many of them have messages cut upon them. In the cases against the wall are many objects of interest. The second on the left contains _Silver Cups_ found at the Aquæ Aureliæ on Lake Bracciano, three of which have itineraries from Cadiz to Rome engraved upon them. They are of the times of Augustus, Vespasian, and Nerva, and are supposed to have been thrown in by people who had made the journey and were cured by the waters, as an offering to the _genii loci_. An ancient mosaic forms the floor of the hall, and in a semicircle at the end statuettes are grouped. FIRST ROOM, on the left of entry hall, is devoted to bronzes used for domestic purposes, and to Lares and Penates. In the centre of the room is the _Bisellium_, or chair of state, formed of bronze inlaid with silver. It was found at Otimo. The _Cista Mistica_ was a prize given to gladiators to contain the requisites for their toilets. Three eagles' claws pressing on toads form the feet. Upon the cylindrical vase are engravings,--a gladiator stepping out of a galley with the _cista_ in his hand; Amycus being killed by Pollux, the Argonauts looking on. It was found at Palestrina, where several similar ones have recently been found. The handle is formed by three figures with their arms entwined. The THIRD ROOM, at end on left, contains the caricature found cut in the plaster of the Domus Gelotiana of the Palatine--_the Skit of the Crucifixion_. It represents the body of a man with an ass's head being crucified. Below, on the left, is the figure of a man in adoration; beneath, in Greek, "Alexamenos adores his God." The Romans mixed up the Jews and the Christians; and believing that the former worshipped a white donkey (Tacitus, "H." v. 3), they applied it to the Christians, and in this way, because they knew the Christian's God was crucified. Tertullian ("Apol." xvi.) says it was a common caricature against the Christians. The date is about 200. The inscriptions and reliefs are early Christian; also the objects in the glass case. To the right, at the end of the entry hall, is the entry to the Natural History and Pre-historic Museums. Passing through these, or better, returning and passing by the entrance, we enter the rooms of TREASURE TROVE AT PALESTRINA.