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of the figure is open, through which the hquor was poured out. The height of it 

 is ahout 10 inches, and the style rather low. 



The 2d figure is of the same height and character, as to the workmanship ; 

 but what it represents, renders it singular. This, figure seems sitting, with its 

 legs stretched out, which are distorted like those of some dwarfs. It has a great 

 head ; the mouth, eyes, and nose, of which are extremely overcharged. It is 

 dressed in the praetexta. On the breast is the bulla aurea, the string of which 

 surrounds its neck, and is held with the right hand ; with the left it holds the 

 tablettes called pugillares, on which the ancients placed wax, and wrote on it with 

 a style. These pugillares are exactly like those dug up at Herculaneum, and 

 which are preserved in that museum. Besides, it bears a great priapus, and be- 

 hind is seen the breech. This was made for a vessel, such as that described 

 above, except that besides that the mouth of this figure is pierced, the liquor 

 can also be poured from the priapus. 



The third figiu'e is entirely like the preceding, except in its dress, which is 

 rustic, and bound round the waist with a cord, to which is fastened somewhat 

 that cannot be made out, but which appears to be a little case to hold some- 

 thing : the rest is not overcharged, but is rustic. It holds in its right hand a 

 loaf, and its left hand is covered with its dress, and, like the other, it shows its 

 breech and priapus. Probably such vessels were used for drinking the liquor 

 coming out of the priapus, this being not unusual with the ancients, as Ju- 

 venal in his second satire, gives us to understand ; Vetreo bibit ille priapo. 



The last figure represents the Roman Charity. She is sitting, and with her 

 left hand embraces her father, and with her right presses the breast which her 

 father sucks ; who is expressed in this figure totally emaciated. This does not, 

 like the others, form a vessel, but simply exhibits the story. The style is mo- 

 derate, its height near the same as that of the others. This last groupe is co- 

 vered with a varnish of glazing, like that which covers earthen plates and 

 things of that kind. There were found, in the before-mentioned niches, 2 

 little busts of baked earth, of the same height ; one wants the head. This 

 is all that is found in that part of the building, which is supposed to be 

 the front. 



to In a little closet, the dimensions of which are about 6 feet in length, and 4 in 

 breadth, discovered the 13th of last month, was found a very fine tripod, about 

 3 feet high, extremely well preserved. In short, it is one of the most beautiful 

 pieces of antiquity in the whole world. It is formed of 3 satyrs, young, and all 

 exactly alike. Their heads are most beautiful, with a cheerful countenance, and 

 the hair well disposed with a ribband, that surrounds the head. On the forehead 

 stand 2 small horns, which are united. The right hand rests on the side of the 

 body, and the left is open, with the arm somewhat extended. They have a great 



