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all over with white dots, like hoar frost. The 

 Augusteum undatim crispum in vertices is the 

 rosso fiorito of the Italians, with little tufts or 

 flowers of white. 



5. Because the other stones, mistaken for the 

 Tiberian and Augustean marbles, are now known 

 not to be Egyptian, just as the green porphyry, or 

 pretended ophite, is not Egyptian. 



The rosso antico therefore is rightly styled 

 Egyptian*. Brard describes this beautiful mar- 

 ble as of a deep blood red, with little distant 

 black or white veins, and often sprinkled with lit- 

 tle white dots. Such is the Egyptian Antinous ; 

 but two ancient seats used in the baths, and the 

 bust of an Indian Bacchus, are free from the 

 veins, though the dots be always visible. The 

 celebrated statue of Agrippa, son-in-law of Au- 

 gustus, in the Grimani palace at Venice, is of this 

 imperial marble, intended perhaps as a special 

 compliment')'. 



The rosso annulate is red, with round white 

 spots ; the seme santo, red, with little triangular 



* Imperati, and Wallerius, i. 134, say the rosso antico was from 

 Upper Egypt. As Syene was on the borders of Ethiopia, it is also 

 called Ethiopicus. (See A pp.) 



t A good engraving is given in Dr. Pococke's Travels in the 

 East, vol. ii. 



