Drawer cabinets, which support the show cases, are intended to receive pottery fragments from all important Palestinian sites arranged in stratigraphical layers. Those of Ascalon and Ain-Shems are already in position.
Sculpture.—The sculpture includes:
(1) bust of a Roman lady (Princess?) of the third century A.D. (Gaza?);
(2) statuette of Hermes (Gaza?);
(3) torso of a kneeling female (Venus) of fine workmanship (Ascalon);
(4) statuette of a draped woman (Ascalon).
Inscriptions in Greek, Latin, and Arabic are arranged in the vestibule.
A sale-room attached to the Museum contains duplicate specimens of glass and pottery derived from various excavations.
The Museum is open daily, except on holidays, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Local Museums.—Local Museums have been opened at Ascalon, Caesarea and Acre; while a Jewish section of the Government Museum is in course of formation in Jerusalem. The formation of an Arab section is under consideration.
§ 4. Coins.
Early Jewish Period.—The range of the coins of this period is from 141 to 40 B.C. They are as follows:
Thick silver shekels of the five years 141 to 136 B.C., half-shekels, and the rare quarter-shekel of the fourth year attributed by some scholars to Simon the. Maccabee (141 B.C.), by others to the Jewish Revolt (66 to 70 A.D.); large bronze coins with jug, palm-tree and lyre, with the legend "Simon Nasi Israel"; Maccabean bronze "Zion" coins of the second, third and fourth year (140 to 137 B.C.); small Asmonean bronze coins ending with the larger Mattathia-Antigonus, the last Asmonean ruler (40 B.C.).
Herodian Period.—The Herodian coins include those of Herod the Great (37 B.C.) and his sons, Antipas, Archelaus,
