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THIRD GRiECO-ROMAN ROOM. 
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Between this room and the Egyptian Gallery is a large krater with 
reliefs representing Satyrs making wine, found in the villa of Hadrian 
at Tivoli. 
SECOND GR.ECO-ROMAN ROOM. 
In an alcove in this room is the Town el ey Venus, found at Ostia ; in 
the alcove on the opposite side is an athlete hurling a disk, presumed 
to be a copy of the celebrated Diskobolos of Myron. 
In the angles of this room are four heads; the Giustiniani ApGllo, 
purchased at the Pourtales sale ; a female head, from the Towneley 
collection, formerly called Dione; an heroic head from the same 
collection, and a youthful head, probably of Bacchus. 
THIKD GR^CO-ROMAN ROOM. 
This room contains a variety of statues, busts, and reliefs, 
most of which represent divine or heroic personages. The 
description commences from the North- West door, leading to 
the Room of Archaic Sculptures. 
On the North side the following may be noticed : Actoeon, trans- 
formed by Diana into a stag ; a group representing a sacrifice to 
Mithras, the Persian Sun-God ; a statue restored as Paris ; a tablet 
in relief, representing the Apotheosis of Homer. In the upper part of 
the scene are Jupiter, Apollo, and the nine Muses on a hill in which is 
a cave : this relief is inscribed with the name of the sculptor, Archelaus of 
Priene. Then follow statues of the Muses Thalia and Erato and heads 
of Muses; the head of a wounded Amazon, on a bracket; an heroic 
head restored by Flaxman, and formerly in the collection of the 
late Mr. Samuel Rogers; the beautiful female bust commonly called 
Glytie, and which may represent some imperial personage of the 
Augustan age in the character of a goddess; a reclining figure of 
Endymion, and two statues of Cupid (Eros), one being a life-size figure 
bending his bow, and the other a small figure in the same attitude ; 
a recumbent figure of Cupid with the attributes of Hercules. 
Next to these succeed several sculptures of which Hercules is the 
•subject ; a small statue on a bracket ; a relief, in which he is repre- 
sented capturing the Keryneian stag ; and on the Eastern wall three 
heads of Hercules. One of these, which is of colossal size, is very 
similar to the head of the celebrated Farnese Hercules at Naples. 
On the South side of the room are a head of Venus ; a relief with a 
dedicatory inscription, and representing three suppliants approaching 
Apollo, Diana, and Latona ; Cupid, or Somuus, from Tarsus : a head of 
the youthful Hercules ; a life-size statue of Libera, or Ariadne, with 
a panther ; a girl playing with astragali. On a bracket above is a torso 
of Venus stooping to adjust her sandal; and above this again is 
a relief representing two Satyrs, from Cumae. 
Next in order are, a youthful Bacchus ; a group of Bacchus 
and Ambrosia, the latter being represented at the moment of 
