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DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[ground 
on the pedestal) ; of a lady named Olympias (also bearing a dedi- 
catory inscription) ; and of Antoninus Pius. 
Against the pilaster, statue of Marcus Aurelius, in civil costume. 
Compartment XI. — Busts of Marcus Aurelius (attired as a Frater 
Arvalis) ; of his wife Faustina the Younger; of his colleague in the 
Empire, Lucius Verus ; of an unknown person of about the same 
period ; and of Septimius Severus. 
Against the pilaster, statue of a person in military costume, of 
about the close of the second, or beginning of the third century. 
Compartment XII.— Busts of Caracalla ; of an unknown middle- 
aged man ; of an unknown woman (a work of doubtful antiquity) ; 
of Gordianus I. ; and of Otacilia Severa (wife of the Emperor Philip). 
FIKST GR^CO-ROMAN SALOON. 
This and the two succeeding rooms are appropriated to 
statues, busts, and bas-reliefs, of the mixed class termed 
Graeco-Roman, consisting of works discovered (so far as is 
known) in Italy, but owing their origin and character, either 
directly or mediately, to the Greek schools of sculpture. 
Some few of these may, perhaps, be original monuments of 
the autonomous or ante-Roman period of Greece, afterwards 
transported by the conquerors to their own country, but the 
majority Avere certainly executed in Italy during the Imperial 
times, though generally by Greek artists, and in many in- 
stances copied, or but slightly varied, from earlier Greek 
models. The relative aoje of such works bein^ too uncertain 
to admit of carrying out satisfactorily a chronological ar- 
rangement, they are classified according to their subjects, 
all the representations of each personage, mj'-thic or real, 
being placed in juxtaposition. 
The present room contains the first portion of the my- 
thological series, consisting of all the examples of the Twelve 
Olympic Deities, with their several modifications in the 
Greek and Roman Pantheon. The description commences 
from the Nortliern, or right-hand side of the Western door, 
which faces the entrance. The inscriptions on the pedestals 
indicate firstly the Latin, and secondly the Greek, names of 
the Deities, and, whenever known, the site of discovery. 
First in order are the representations of Jupiter (called by the Greeks 
Zeus), consisting of a life-size head ; a colossal bust ; a bust in the 
character wf Serapis ; and a small statue, seated, and combining the 
attributes of Pluto {Hades), with those proper to Olympus. 
