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DEPARllilENT OF ANTIQUITIES. [BASEMENT 
On the central bracket is a head of an uncertain personage, possibly 
Bacchus, bound with a diadem ; and below it, terminal heads of the 
bearded Bacchus and Libera, placed back to back. 
Further on is a terminal statue of Pan, playing on a pipe ; a life-size 
statue of a youthful Satyr; and a small statue of a laughing Satyr. 
On the last bracket is a bust of a youthful Satyr ; below it, a 
terminal statue of a Satyr, life-size ; and, on each side of this, a head, 
one of a laughing Satyr, the other of a Maenad, or Bacchante. 
In the centre of the last compartment is a life-size statue of a Satyr, 
in a dancing attitude, commonly known as the " Rondinini Faun ;" 
beside it, to the left, a statue of a Satyr, or Silenus, falling on the 
ground ; to the right, two small statues of Pan, with goats' legs ; and 
above, two fine bas-reliefs, one of a Bacchic procession or dance, the 
other of Bacchus and his attendants visiting Icarius, king of Attica. 
At the Western extremity of the room is an architectural statue of 
the kind commonly termed Caryatid, which originally supported part 
of the entablature of a portico. 
Near the staircase is a small statue of Fortuna (Tuclie) ; above it, a 
symbolical bas-relief ; and adjoining this, a head of heroic character, 
but uncertain interpretation. 
The adjoining staircase leads to the 
GRJECO-ROMAN BASEMENT ROOM. 
This apartment is appropriated to miscellaneous monuments 
of the Grseco-Eoman series, of subordinate rank to the ideal 
or historical sculptures : such as representations of animals, 
arcliitectural or decorative fragments, and articles of actual 
use, religious or secular. With them are united a few monu- 
ments of purely Eoman character, though not, like the pre- 
ceding, found exclusively in Italy. They are arranged in 
classes, to illustrate their original application or employment. . 
I. Vases, and Feagments of Vases. — At the foot of the staircase, a 
large Vase, or Tazza, with handles terminating in swans' necks. On 
the North side of the room, a beautiful Vase, encircled with a continuous 
bas-relief, representing Dionysiac orgies, and a Vase, having in front a 
bas-relief of a Bacchic dance ; between these, two fragments of Vases. 
In the first window, a Bowl, used for libations; on the inner side is 
represented a Bacchante. 
II. CisTKiiNs, OR Basins. — In the middle of the room, a Cistern of 
green basalt, perforated at the bottom ; and between the first and 
second windows, an oblong granite Basin. 
III. Candklabua, and Fkagments of Candelabra. — In the second 
recess, a seated sphinx, from the base of a magnificent Candelabrum ; 
against the adjoining pier, a bas-relief of a Candelabrum, and a pan^l 
with a Bacchante in low relief, supposed to have ornamented the base 
