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ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 
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of which three are from Ireland, and one from Fardell in Devonshire. 
Against another pilaster is a remarkable Altar, with a dedication in 
Greek to the Tyrian Hercules. 
Against the Western wall is a large Basin, in the form of half an 
octagon, with bas-reliefs on the sides ; as well as several smaller 
sculptures. 
To the Koman period of the occupation of Britain belong the six 
specimens of mosaic or tesselated work attached to the upper wall on 
the North side of this Room. Those in Compartments VII — IX. 
were discovered in London; and those in Compartments X — XII., at 
Abbot's Ann, in Hampshire. 
AUGUSTUS W. FRANKS. 
ROMAN ICONOGRAPHY. 
Along the North side of the gallery is arranged the series 
of Roman portraits, in chronological order. Upon the 
pedestal of each statue, or bust, are inscribed, when known, 
the name of the person represented, the dates of such person's 
birth, death, and (if an Emperor) of his reign, and the site 
where the sculpture was discovered. 
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 Townley, 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 
individual purchases and donations. 
In the centre of the gallery are the head of a barbarian 
chieftain, an equestrian statue, restored as the Emperor 
Caligula, but probably a work of the time of Caracalla, from 
the Farnese Palace, Rome, and the torso of an Emperor. 
Compartment VII. — Head of Cnseus Cornelius Lentulus Mar- 
cellinus, Propraetor of Cyrene, about b.c. 70-56, and heads of Julius 
Caesar, Augustus, the younger Drusus, Tiberius, and Caligula, or per- 
haps the young Augustus. 
Against the pilaster, a statue of an unknown personage, wear- 
ing the toga ; apparently dating not far from the Christian Era. 
Compartment VIII. — Heads of Claudius, Nero, and Otho, bust 
of Empress, and busts of Dom tia and Trajan. 
Against the pilaster, an Iconic female figure, thought to be the 
Empress Livia, but perhaps a priestess. Found at Atrapalda, 
Lower Italy. 
Compartment IX. — Busts of Hadrian ; his favourite Antinoiis ; 
