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tre breast naked. His busts are very 
@omimon. ag \ 
$ (Fifth Room.) 
’'This room contains monumental in- 
Scriptions, urns, &c. of course. ¥ shall 
xiot proceed through it seriatim. The 
- earthen olfe, for inferior people, were of 
two kinds: cinerdrie, for the ashes; 
- essarie, for the bones. Two of these 
urns have the story of Echelus. Ivis 
singular how favourite a subject this is 
of Etruscan sarcophagi; besides two 
. here, Buonarotti has pubhshed two others 
from the Vatican and Villa Albani. 
WN. 24. of Echettes; om the cover a re- 
- eumbent female figure ; and N. 34. the 
Combat of Eteocles, &c. both occur in 
‘Montfaucon, (Suppl v. 5. b. 6. c. i. 2.) 
as Etruseati monuments; and a recum- 
bent fiywre appears upon ail the six sar- 
eophagi there given. 
Uponanother Etruscan urn, besides the 
Combat of Eteocles and Polynices, are 
Vuries. It was their office to purify the 
souls of mortals: at the instant of leaving 
the body. © Metice they frequently occur 
‘upon tombs. See Stat.’ Thed. lt. 8. 
. Gori Mus. Etruse. tab. 175." The spe- 
aimen of Moszic pavement is not rch, 
%e has the Guilloche, as usual, but no 
dentral figure, and the dies are irre- 
far. 
+ (Sixth Room.) 
» No.4: Profile of a Greek Philoso- 
phemin'a medallion. C. Caylas (ti, 133.) 
\ytetes from Pliny, how particolar the 
Rortians were in having portraits of 
philosophers © accurate resemblances. 
Antiquaries are agreed in calling phi- 
losophers, statees or busts which have 
only a cloak with a tunic, and the 
breast entirely uncovered, In both the 
: en dg here, the head is inclined ; 
‘Put Nat is by no means any characteristic. 
Et’ occurs indeed ina Plato published 
. by’ Folv. Ursinus, and in the Hercu- 
lanean collection, (Bronzi, i. p. 103.) 
andthe pretended Florentine Demos- 
thenes, perhaps in one or two other in- 
stances, but it is not general: 
No. 2. Ackilles among the daughters 
of Eycomedes, upon a sarcophagus. 
The imcidents im the life of Achillés,. 
are very common. subjects in the gems 
of Stosch, and the Monumenti [nediti 
of Winekelnann. The beauty of Achil~ 
Jes, so celebrated among the Greeks, is 
united upon the marbles to that fierce 
~ afid disdamful air which [omer ascribes 
‘to hiny; bat this bas-reli¢f, as well as 
Remarks on the Towiley States. 
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[March 1, 
No. 4 to 8, all parts of surcophigly 
are of inferior work, being probably 
made ready forsale, and the subjects 
trite. 
No. 8, ts the medallion of an inclined 
Head, a3 No. 1. is 
No. 9, representing captive Ama- 
zons, has a coincidence to that of a sim 
milar profile in every one of the Ama- 
zons. Modern artists should note, that 
all Amazons elsewhere, as well as here, 
are always alike, and have a serious 
look mixed with grief and pain. The 
eyebrows are indicated by an arrele 
pive? As this practice was chiefly in 
use in the ancient style of sculpture, 
it may be conjectured, that the Amazon 
of Etesilaus, which won the prize against 
Polycletus and Phidias, was the model 
of all the others. (Linc. des Antig. v. 
Amuazones. 
No. 10. Bacchus with a Thyrsus, his 
right arm over the shoulder af a Faun. 
In Maffei, La Chausse, Borssard, and 
Montfaucon, are Bacchus’s im this atti- 
tude. Bacchus here has buskins, as in 
Ta Chauise, &c. 
No. 11. An elderly man reading a 
manuscript roll; before him stands a 
Muse, holding a mask, . This is a dra- 
matic author. Count Caylus.(Rec. ii. 
pl 8. n.5.) has published a figure hold- 
wig a matk, which from thence he takes 
to be a comic author. In a painting 
of Herculanum, is a. woman turning her 
back upon a tragic poet; she is kneeling 
Opposite a tragic mask upon a pedes- 
tal. Licett (Gem. Antig. ¢. 118.) 
thinks that a mask denotes a dramatic 
writer, in speaking of a bead ascribed 
to Virgil, which has also a mask, thought 
by Gronovius and Gori (Mus. Foor, 
Gem. i. nl.43. n. 7.) to allude to. the 
manes, from the description of the in- 
fernal revions in-the Eneid. This mask, 
has no beard. 
No. 12. A Bacchanalian procession. 
We see here, Silenus and the ass. Aan 
elephant is introduced. It was particus 
larly consecrated to Bacchus, and some= 
times acconipanies the mysteries of that 
god, to shew his voyage and conquests in 
the Indies. (Beg. Lhes. Brandenb, i, 
960.) 
No. 13. Paris and Helen. In the 
famous gem possessed by M, Chretien 
Dehn, of Rome, the two heads of 
Paris aid Helen are. remarkably. fine. 
No. 14. Genii and Armour, 
No. 
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