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GILECO-ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. [GROUND 
On the West side of the room are a colossal head of Jupiter, two 
colossal heads of Minerva, and a head of Minerva with the drapery and 
helmet restored in bronze. 
SECOND GR^CO-TIOMAN KOOM. 
In an alcove in this room is the Townley Venus found at Ostia ; in 
the alcove on the opposite side is an athlete hurling a disc, presumed 
to be a copy of the celebrated Discobolus of Myron. 
In the angles of this room are four heads ; the Giustiniani Apollo, 
purchased at the Pourtales sale ; a female head from the Townley 
collection, formerly called Dione; an heroic head from the same 
collection, and a female head, perhaps of a marine goddess, from the 
Pourtales collection. 
THIED GRiECO-ROMAN ROOM. 
This room contains a variety of statues, busts, and reliefs, 
most of which represent divine or heroic personages. The 
description commences from the North-west door, leading to 
the Lycian Gallery. 
On the North side the following may be noticed : Actoeon, trans- 
formed by Diana into a stag ; a group representing a sacrifice to 
Mithras, the Persian sun-god ; a statue restored as of Paris ; a tablet 
in relief, representing the Apotheosis of Homer. In the upper part of 
the scene are Jupiter, Apollo, and the nine Muses on Mount Par- 
nassus : this relief is inscribed with the name of the sculptor, Archelaus of 
Priene. Then follow statues of the Muses Thalia and Erato and heads 
of Muses; the head of a wounded Amazon on a bracket; an heroic 
head restored by Flaxman, and formerly in the collection of the 
late Mr. Samuel Piogers; the beautiful female head commonly called 
Clytie, and which may represent some imperial personage of the 
Augustan age in the character of a goddess ; a reclining figure of 
Endymion, and two statues of Cupid (Eros); a life-size figure bending 
his bow, and a small figure in the same attitude ; a recumbent figure 
of Cupid with the attributes of Hercules. 
Next to these succeed several sculptures of which Hercules is the 
subject ; a small statue on a bracket ; a relief, in which he is repre- 
sented capturing the Msenalian stag ; and on the Eastern wall several 
heads arranged on each side of the door. One of these, which is of 
colossal size, is very similar to the head of the celebrated Earnese 
Hercules at Naples. 
On the South side of the room are a head of Venus ; a seated Muse, 
inscribed Eumousia ; a life-size statue of Libera, or Ariadne, with a 
panther ; a head of the youthful Hercules ; a girl playing with 
Astragali. On a bracket above is a torso of Venus stooping to adjust 
her sandal. 
