ObservuHojis on Mosaic, 2^ 



that of the pigeons of Furietti. — 6th, A mosaic, two pahns 

 in height, was found in a villa near Pompeii (perhaps that 

 of the emperor Claudius), in the month of April \7Cy3, It 

 represents three females with comic masks, who play on dif- 

 ferent instruments : near them is a child, who plays on a 

 flute. Winkehr.Jin says that the workmanship of this piece 

 is so delicate that a magnifying glass is necessary to distinguish 

 it. The name of the artist, Dioscorides of Samos, is inscribe4 

 on it in Greek letters.— 7th, Another mosaic of the same 

 artist, and of workmanship equally delicate, was dug up in 

 the presence of Winkelman in the month of February 1764. 

 It also represents three females with coinic masks, and a 

 child wrapped up in a mantle which has no mask.— 8th, A 

 mosaic pavement twenty-seven palms in length and twenty- 

 five in breadth was discovered at Praeneste in 1766. The 

 design of it was sent to Rome at the time when Winkelman 

 was employed in explaining that of Sylla found at Praeneste. 

 The subject of it is not known, nor do we know whether it has 

 been engraved and explained, or to what place it was carried. 

 • — 9th, An antique mosaic dug up at Rome in 1769 ; another 

 with flowers, from the villa Hadriani ; and a modern mosaic, 

 representing St. Peter and the Virgin, are to be seen at Man- 

 heim. — 10th, Bar toll's work on the tombs of the antient 

 Romans and Etruscans, reprinted in the twelfth volume of 

 the Thesaurus AntiqullatiLm Grcecarum of Gronovius, con- 

 tains several engravings of antient pavements with mosaiCs«, 

 viz, figs. 14, 17, and IS, of the tombs of the villa Corsini j| 

 fig. 110 exhibits a beautiful mosaic representing Ganymede 

 feeding the eagle of Jupiter : it w^as taken from the catacombs 

 of St. Sebastian. The first volume of the Lucernce Sepulc/ira- 

 les of Bartoli and Bellori contains also an antique pavement 

 in mosaic from the tombs of the villa Corsini. It represents, 

 amidst several other figmes and ornaments, four naked mimic 

 dancers of that kind wlio preceded the funerals of distinguished 



personages among the aiiticnts 11th, Three pavements in 



mosaic, one of wliich represents a comic scene surrounded 

 by theatrical masks, flowers, birds, helmets, &c. ; the second, 

 Theseus and the Mhiotaur; and the third, the combat of 

 Entellus and Dares, were discovered, in 1790, without the 



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