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GR^CO-ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. [BASEMENT 
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 Kerjneian 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 Somnus, 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 
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 Cerdo, 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 
Rome.' 
, The adjoining staircase leads to the 
GR^CO-EOMAN BASEMENT ROOM, 
To which the Basement of the Lycian Room has been recently- 
annexed. 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 
J. rc/iceo^o^m, 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 of the first room is placed the tessellated pavement of a 
room 40 ft. long and 1 2 ft. wide, in the Roman Villa at Halicarnassus. 
