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GKJECO-BOMAN BASEMENT EOOM. 
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Next in order are, a youthful Bacchus and a group of Bacchus 
attended by Ampelus, the latter heing represented at the moment of 
transformation into a vine, from which a panther is snatching grapes. 
On each side of this group is a small statue of a Paniskos or young 
Pan ; the support at the side of each of these figures is inscribed with 
the name of the sculptor, Marcus Cossutius Cerdo, a freedman. 
Further on are part of a group of two boys quarrelling over the 
game of astragali ; a statue of Venus ; statues of two Satyrs ; the 
head of a Satyr from a statue ; the head of a Bacchante ; a terminal 
Satyric figure playing on the flageolet, and two figures of the goat- 
legged Pan. At the Western extremity of the room is a Mercury, 
formerly in the Farnese Palace at Rome. 
The adjoining staircase leads to the 
GRZECO-ROMAN BASEMENT ROOM. 
In this room are a few figures and reliefs of the Graeco- 
Roman period of inferior merit, and a number of miscellaneous 
objects in marble or other stones, such as representations of 
animals, architectural or decorative fragments, and articles of 
actual use, religious or secular. The contents of this room 
may be thus arranged in classes : — 
I. Figures and Reliefs. — In the middle of the room a reclining 
figure of a Naiad, and a Mithraic group inscribed with a Latin dedica- 
tion ; in the third recess on the North side, a relief representing two 
gladiators fighting with a bull, from the Pourtales collection; and 
a votive relief, which represents various articles of toilet dedicated by 
a priestess ; in the fourth recess a similar votive relief, and in the sixth 
recess a group of Hermes and Herse, from the Farnese Palace, much 
restored. At the East end of the room are terminal figures of 
Mercury and of a Satyr. 
II. Vases and Fragments of Vases.— In the centre of the room, a 
large Vase, or Tazza, with handles terminating in swans' necks, and a 
beautiful Vase encircled with a continuous relief, representing Dionyaiac 
orgies. On the North side, a Vase, having in front a Bacchic dunce. 
in relief. , . 
III. Cisterns or Basins. — In the middle of the room is a Cistern of 
green basalt, perforated at the bottom ; and between the first and 
second windows, an oblong granite Basin. 
IV. Candelabra and Fragments of Candelabra. — In the second 
recess is a seated sphinx, from the base of a magnificent Candelabrum ; 
against the adjoining pier, a bas-relief of a Candelabrum, and a panel 
with a Bacchante iu low relief, supposed to have ornamented the base 
of a Candelabrum ; underneath, three triangular bases of Candelabra, 
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