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GRiE CO-ROM AN ANTIQUITIES. [BASEMENT 
transformation into a vine, from which a panther is snatching grapes. 
On each side of this group is a small statue of a Paniscus or young 
Pan ; the support at the side of each of these figures is inscribed with 
the name of the sculptor, Marcus Cossutius Gerdo, a freedman. On 
the wall is a relief representing Ariadne (?), from Cumae. 
Further on are part of a group of two boys quarrelling over the 
game of astragali; a statue of Venus; statues of two Satyrs; the 
head of a Satyr from a statue ; the head of a Bacchante ; a terminal 
Satyric figure playing on the flageolet, and two figures of the goat- 
legged Pan. At the Western extremity of the room are a torso of 
Venus and a statue of Mercury, formerly in the Farnese Palace at Home. 
The adjoining staircase leads to the 
GRiECO-ROMAN BASEMENT ROOM WITH ANNEX, 
In this room are arranged figures and reliefs of the Grseco- 
Roman period, of inferior merit, miscellaneous objects in 
marble and other material, and the collection of tessellated 
pavements and mosaics which has been formed chiefly from 
the discoveries at Carthage in 1856-8, and at Halicarnassus 
in 1856. For an account of the former discoveries, see 
A rchceologia, xxxviii., pp. 202-30. The tessellated pavements 
from Halicarnassus were taken from the rooms and passages of 
a Roman Villa. See Newton, Hist, of Discoveries at Hali- 
carnassus, &c., II., pt. i. pp. 281-303. 
On the floor opposite the foot of the staircase is placed the tessellated 
pavement of a room 40 ft. long and 12 ft. wide, from a Roman Villa at 
Halicarnassus. At its upper end this mosaic represents a marine 
divinity, probably Amphitrite, accompanied by a Triton. To the South 
wall of this room is attached a wreath with an inscription from the 
same villa. Attached to the East wall is a mosaic representing on a 
colossal scale, the head of a Marine Deity, who has been identified 
as Glaucus, but may be Neptune (engraved, Monument! of the 
Roman Institute, v. pi. 38). This mosaic was found at Carthage, 
and was presented to the Museum in 1844 by Mr. Hudson Gurney. 
Against the same wall are two marble groups representing Victory 
sacrificing a bull, and a marble relief, from the Pourtales Collection, 
representing two gladiators fighting with a bull. Along the sides of 
this room are placed sculptures in the round and in relief, marble 
candelabra, altars, vases, and other objects. Among the statues may 
be specially noted, the Nymph Cyrene struggling with a lion, found at 
Cyrene, and two small figures of fishermen, near which, on the party 
wall, is a mosaic from Carthage, representing a basket of fish. In the 
recess, in the middle of the party wall, are two curious reliefs from 
