FLOOR.] ROMAN ICONOGRAPHY. 75 
The greater part of the collection which here commences, 
and which is continued through the four succeeding, or Grseco- 
Roman, rooms, was formed by Charles Towneley, Esq., and 
purchased, after his decease in 1805, for ,£20,000. Subse- 
quent acquisitions have been made by the bequest of the col- 
lection of R. Payne Knight, Esq., in 1824, and by various 
purchases and donations. 
In the centre of the gallery are the head of a barbarian 
• I chieftain, an equestrian statue, restored as the Emperor 
Caligula, but probably a work of the time of Caracalla, from 
the Farnese Palace, Rome, the torso of an Emperor from 
1 Gyrene, and a sarcophagus from Hierapytna in Crete, on which 
are reliefs representing four scenes in the life of Achilles, viz., 
his education by the Centaur Cheiron, his recognition when 
disguised in female attire among the daughters of Lycomedes, 
i Thetis receiving his armour from Vulcan, and the dragging 
of the body of Hector round the walls of Troy. On another 
sarcophagus in this room are reliefs representing the labours 
of Hercules, found at Genzano. 
Compartment VII. — Head of Cnasus Cornelius Lentulus Mar- 
i cellinus, Propraetor of Cyrene, about b.c 70-56, and heads of Julius 
Caesar, Augustus, the younger Drusus, Tiberius, and Caligula, or per- 
i haps the young Augustus. 
r Against the pilaster, a statue of an unknown personage, wear- 
ing the toga ; probably of the Augustan Age. 
i Compartment VIII. — Heads of Claudius, Nero, and Otho, bust 
i of Empress, and busts of Domitia and Trajan. 
;, Against the pilaster, an Iconic female figure, thought to be the 
it Empress Livia, but perhaps a priestess. Found at Atrapalda, 
Lower Italy. 
Compartment IX. — Busts of Hadrian ; his favourite Antinous ; 
Julia Sabina, and a young man with a dedicatory inscription on the 
pedestal. 
Against the pilaster, a statue of Hadrian, in armour. 
Compartment X. — Bust of Antoninus Pius ; head and two busts 
of Marcus Aurelius, the one attired as a Frater Arvalis ; busts of 
s ; Faustina and Lucius Verus when young. 
e Against the pilaster, a statue of Hadrian, found at Cyrene, in civil 
costume. 
1 Compartment XI. — Busts of Lucius Verus and Lucilla ; head of 
s Commodus ; and busts of Crispina, Pertinax, and Septimius Severus. 
e Against the pilaster, an unknown Iconic female figure, found at 
Cyrene ; probably of the time of Hadrian. 
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