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No. 45. A Head of Avatus, Tt is not 
a continon héad. 
No. 46: A Greek sepulchral Moau- 
ment. « 
No, 47, An Eagle. 
No. 48. Base of a candelabrum. 
No. 49. A Head of Plautilla. 
No. 50. An Altar: 
No: 51. A sepulchral Cippus. 
- No. 52; Libera. 
No. 58. Adonis. 
No. 54. An unknown Female. 
- ° No. 55. Ceres crowned in the manner 
of Isis.’ Ceres was the emblem of the 
productive power of the earth, whence 
she is confounded with the Egyptian 
Isis, the Phenician Venus, and Vesta. 
’ No. 56. A Head of Nero. Busts of 
vero are very rare. In the superb col- 
ction of imperial portraits at the villa 
Albani there is no Nero; of the two at 
the Capitél, one is almost wholly resto- 
red, the other represents Nero as a 
ehild. 
No. 57 to 62, include a votive Foot ; 
Cy sg sad Cippus; an Urn; an Altar; 
& head of Minerva; a funeral Monument 
6f Danocles. 
~ No. 63. ‘An infant Bdcchus. The 
erowh of ivy, and the goat’s skin, &c. 
show this statue to be similar to that en- 
graved by: Montfaucon, 2. i. p. 2. 2. is 
@. 12. ; 
Noi 64, A votive Altar. 
No. 65. Ceracallu. His busts are 
coininon. There are two at the Capitol, 
one in the Florentine Muséum, another 
Pa the villa Albani; French Museum, 
Cc. 
- No. 66. ‘Fragment of ‘a Toe. 
No. 67. An Aliar, sacred to Bac- 
ehus. 
No. -68. Two Dogs. - These hiave 
been much admired; atleast, by those 
who like the animals of the ancients. 
No. 69. A bust of Marcellus. A 
bronze bust of Hercules, knuwn to be 
his by the ears. bas been mistaken for 
Mareellus,: (Bronzi -Breol. tur. 49.) 
Qu. if this be a Marcellus? 
No. 70, An unknown Head. 
No. 71. Fragment of a Foot, 
“ No.71. A’Muse holding a Lyre. Te 
is Terpsichore. » Wincklemann( Art, 4. 23) 
says thus of the lyre in the hands of a 
Muse, in the paintings of Herculanum, 
With this inscription, TEP¥IXOPH AY- 
~ PAN. Itis a'small tyre, and made pro- 
‘bably like that made by Meretiry, with 
‘the shell of a tortoise, and* which was 
‘ealled chelys 
No. 73, A Cupid bending his Bow. 
+ . of 
Reinarks on ihe Townley Statues. 
It is stipposed to have been a ir Pd 
the Cupid of Praziteles, but probably 
without the slightest foundation. The 
face of this Cupid does not appear to 
me to have that sweet stniling aspect 
or beauteous features which’ charace 
cerize in other figures the god of love. ~ 
No. 73. A Bacchante holding the 
hind-quarter of a Kid, ‘The transparent 
drapery is the famous crocota, their dis 
tinctive habit, when not clothed in the 
tiger’s skin. The kid is common, 
No. 74. A small Hercules. It is 
fine. 
No. 75. Gordianus Africanus the 
elder, a bast. There ate portraits of alt 
the Gordians, in the gems of the Palais- 
Royal, tom. i. pl. 48, 49, 505) but 
busts are not common, 
No. 76. A Hund. ; 
No. 77. An unknown female Head; 
with hollow sockets, for coloured stones, 
or other materials, in substitution of 
eyes. The Egyptians began this fashion ; 
it was less common among the Greeks; 
but the Romans pushed it to such exs 
travagant lengths, as to insert ‘rubies, 
emeralds, or even coloured. glass, in- 
stead of eyes, See Coyl. Rec. i. 30. 
iii., pl. m. 2, 3. and Winckelm, Art. iv. 
c. 7. ‘ 
No. 78. Sarcophagus. 
No. 79. A fragment of a'mask of 
Bacchus. The masks which chiefly refer 
to the feasts of Bacchus are represent- 
ed opon many coins of Neapolis, in 
Macedonia; Populonium, in’ Etruria; 
Abydus, in the Troad; Parium, in My- 
sia; Camarina, Mazara, in Sicily; and — 
especially those of Thrace and Maces — 
donia; where these feasts were celebras — 
‘These masks — 
ted with more solemnity. 
are, for the most part, hideous, and such 
as Virgil describes, Georgie, ii. 388. OF 
masks of Bacchus, see Antig. Expliga 
%. ii. 89.3 repeated in the Miscellanea 
of Spon, In the Maffei collection 
(Gemme Antiche, iii. tav. 64.) is a tree 
upon which are suspended many- small 
masks, alluding to the feasts of Bacchus, 
See too the famous Vase of S, Dennis, 
where are numerous masks of ‘this 
kind.  Sée further Plutarch’ Roman 
Questions, 
No, 80. A votive Foot, with a serpent 
twined around it. The serpent is cers 
tainly the known symbol of Esectupius$ 
and medicine; becuse, every year; 
casting its skin, it resembled renovation 
and fresh youth. Father Montfaocon 
has published a sitnilar foot with a sere 
pent, from Bonanui, aud, after pen 
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