FLOOR.] 
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On the other side of the passage, to the North of this room, is a 
small triple statue of Hecate, or Diana Triformis, with a Latin inscrip- 
tion recording the person who dedicated it. 
Against the adjoining pilaster, a statue of Ceres (Derneter), vfith some 
of the attributes of Isis. 
Next follows Minerva (Athene), represented by four busts or heads, 
on the second of which the helmet and drapery have been restored in 
bronze ; whilst the fourth (to the South of the doorway) appears copied 
from an archaic bronze. 
In the South-east angle of the room are representations of Mercury 
(Hermes). These consist of a small head ; a terminus of a boy in the 
character, and with the emblems, of Mercury ; a terminal bust of the 
god ; and, on the Southern wall, a seated figure of him on a bas-relief, 
with a tripod, and two snakes, below. 
On the other side of the door is a bust of Diana (Artemis), the 
sister of Apollo ; a small mutilated statue of Diana, in the character of 
a huntress, attended by a hound ; a life-size statue of the same deity, 
hurling a javelin ; and a small head of her, from a statue. 
On the wall above is a votive tablet, on which is represented a family 
of Roman suppliants consulting the oracle of Apollo, with Diana and 
Latona (Leto) beside him, and a Greek inscription below. 
Next is Venus (Aphrodite). The first representation is a small torso, 
stooping, of the finest workmanship; then follows a head; then a 
statue of heroic size, representhig the goddess preparing for the bath, 
with a vase at her side; then a small but very elegant statue, though 
ill-restored, with some drapery confined between the legs; then the 
torso of an undraped statue, broken to pieces in a fire at Richmond 
House in 1791 : and lastly (in the middle of the room), the statue 
commonly called the " Townley Venus," a half-draped figure of 
heroic size, of which the extremities are restored, but which is justly 
celebrated for its beauty of execution and fine preservation of surface. 
In the South-west angle of the room are three heads of Apollo 
(Ajjollon), of which the last is copied from an archaic bronze, and the 
first is remarkable for its beauty. 
Above, on the South wall, is a bas-relief of Apollo, in his character 
of Citharcccliis, or player on the lyre, receiving a libation from Victory. 
Beside the West door is a bust of Juno (Hera). 
SECOND GR^CO-ROMAN SALOON.* 
This small capartment is appropriated to the representation 
of human personages. They are of tAYO classes, generic and 
individual. The following are generic representation.-3 . — 
In the middle of the room, a statue, of a Discobolus, life-size, throw- 
ing the discus, a kind of quoit ; supposed to be a copy of the cele- 
brated bronze statue by Myron. 
* This saloon being under repair, the objects here described are temporarily re- 
moved fi-om it. 
