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GILECO-ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 
[GROUND 
column are a statue of Apollo, from the Farnese Palace, and a bust 
of Serapis. Against the wall is a statue of Ceres, with the attributes 
of Isis. 
On the East side of the room an heroic figure, and a Satyr playing 
with the infant Bacchus, both from the Farnese Palace. 
On the South side are a statue of Bacchus found at Cyrene, a head 
of Juno, a statue of Diana, a head of Diana, a statue of Apollo 
Citharoedus from Cyrene, a head of Apollo, a statue of Venus, a 
terminal bust of Homer, a statue of a dancing Satyr, a head of a 
poet, and a statue of Diana. 
On the West side of the room are a torso of a 'youth from the 
Farnese Palace, "perhaps representing the god Somnus, a head of 
Jupiter, a head of Minerva, and a colossal bust of Jupiter. 
Between this room and the Egyptian Gallery, is temporarily exhi- 
bited a large terracotta sarcophagus, found at Cervetri, and acquired 
with the Castellani Collection. 
SECOND GRiECO-ROMAN ROOM. 
In an alcove in this room is the Townley Venus found at Ostia ; in 
the alcove on the opposite side is an athlete hurling a disc, presumed 
to be a copy of the celebrated Discobolus of Myron. 
In the angles of this room are four heads ; the Giustiniani Apollo, 
purchased at the Pourtales sale ; a female head from the Townley 
collection, formerly called Dione; an heroic head from the same 
collection, and a youthful head, probably of Bacchus. 
THIRD GRiECO-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 Lycian Gallery. 
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 thesculptor, 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 
Clytie, and which may represent some imperial personage of the 
Augustan age in the character of a goddess ; a reclining figure of 
Endymiou, 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. 
