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and between the fourth and fifth windows, a Candelabrum with three 
bas-reliefs. 
V. Animals. — Between or in the windows, a Butterfly held in the 
hand of a female; a Ram's head, in the hand of a child; a fragment 
of a bas-relief, with four horses' heads ; a group of two Greyhounds, 
seated ; ahead of a Goat ; a small Eagle ; a bas-relief of a Cow suckling 
her calf, and drinking ; an Eagle ; a Swan, in red marble ; and a bas- 
relief of a Cow. 
VI. Human Feet. — Between the second and third windows, a colossal 
left Foot ; and two smaller Feet, with serpents twined round the ancles : 
between the middle windows, a colossal Foot, supposed to be from a 
statue of Apollo. 
VII. Trapezophora, or Supports for Trtpodial and other Tables. 
— Between the middle windows, a Trapezophoron, formed of a lion's 
head and leg, and the upper part of a similar Trapezophoron. Against 
the opposite pier, a Trapezophoron, formed of a panther's head and 
leg; and a porphyry Trapezophoron, of similar design. 
Between the last two, a semicircular Sundial. 
VIII. Domestic Fountains. — Between the fifth and sixth windows 
is a Fountain in the form of a shaft, decorated with foliage. 
IX. Masks. — Over the Sundial, a collection of Masks, on a marble 
panel. 
Below, on pedestals, a female Mask, such as was placed on the face 
of a corpse, and a female tragic Mask. 
Against the next pier, a marble Panel, revolving on a pivot, sculp- 
tured on both sides with Masks, and intended for a window, or ventilator, 
in a Roman house; and underneath, a bas-relief of a Mask of Pan. 
Between the windows, on brackets, are — 
X. Four Ornamental Discs, sculptured in relief on both sides ; 
originally suspended by chains in the intercolumniations of colonnades, 
in Pompeian and Roman houses, and also probably in theatres. Their 
subjects are chiefly Bacchic. 
XI. Altars. — On the North, South, and West sides of the room 
are Altars, dedicated to various divinities, one being to Fortuna 
Redux, for the safe return from some expedition of the Emperor 
Septimius Severus and his family. 
XII. Cippi, or Law Columns, erected by the Romans for various 
purposes, chiefly monumental. In the fifth window, a capital of a 
Cippus, perhaps originally placed at the boundary of a vineyard. 
In the sixth window is a marble Chair, used for the vapour-bath. 
XIII. Architectural Fragments and Decorations. — On the North 
side of the room is a bas-relief, apparently from a triumphal arch or 
column, representing armour. Against the Eastern wall, an ornamental 
Console, with a small figure of Victory ; on each side of this, a Victory 
sacrificing a bull, probably from a triumphal arch ; over these, two 
slabs from the internal and external Friezes of a circular edifice ; on 
each side of the preceding, the Capital of a Pilaster. On the floor, 
part of a mosaic Pavement, representing the head of Neptune ; in the 
third and fourtli recesses, two mosaics, one representing a landscape 
