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fee the fide oppoftte to the front, and the rooms 
within, to be able to fpeak decifively. But to re- 
turn and fpeak of the front; I can tell you, that it was 
all painted in the grotefque manner ; but little, and 
that ill preferved, remains. There were no ornaments of 
ftucco, or marble ; the walls indeed were coloured, 
and there were fome fmall niches formed in the 
walls, each of which correfponded to one of the pi- 
lafters, and confequently there were eighteen in 
number. In feveral of them were found certain fi- 
gures, fome of earth, others of marble, in this or- 
der; fir ft was placed one of marble, then one of 
earth : thofe of marble were 9 fmall Hermre, among 
which there is a Hercules crowned with oak, fome 
fatyrs, fawns and Bacchantes. Two of them are of ' 
the old red, and the other of the old yellow mar- 
ble, and are of an indifferent ftyle. Thofe of the 
baked earth confift of four figures. The firft is a 
Barbarian king, who ftands ered with his right 
hand under his chin in a penfive manner, and wears 
hischlamys clafpedwith a fibula upon his right fhoul- 
der. But what m ikes this figure the more curious 
is, that the whole body forms a vafe, on the back 
of which there is a handle to hold it by. Behind 
the head there is a little tube, through which water 
or fome other liquor was poured in, and the mouth 
of the figure is open, through which the liquor was 
poured out. The Bright of it is about ten inches, 
and the ftyle rather low. The fecond figure is of 
the fame hight and charader, as to the workman- 
fhip ; but what it reprefents, renders it lingular. I 
will content mylelf with deferibing its adion and its 
ornaments, and leave to others the explication of the 
9 reft. 
