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Villa Tiburtina supposed to have been the Picture Gallery. Pt. 2. 
PI. xix. 
No. 20. A head of Hippocrates : found near Albano, amongst what 
are supposed to be the remains of the villa of Marcus Varro. Pt. 2. 
PI. xx. 
No. 21 . A terminal head of Mercury. Purchased in 1812, at the sale 
of Antiquities belonging to William Chinnery , Esq. Pt. 2. PI. xxr. 
No. 22. A statue of Venus. It was found by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, 
in an ancient bath at Ostia, in 1775. Pt. 2. PI. xxii. 
No. 23. A bas-relief, representing the apotheosis, or deification, of 
Homer. The Father of Poetry is seated on a throne at the foot of 
Mount Parnassus, the residence of the Muses. Before the poet is a 
group of figures offering up sacrifices to him. Above are Apollo and 
the Nine Muses ; and on the summit of the mountain is Jupiter, who 
appears to be giving his sanction to the divine honours which are paid 
to Homer. This highly interesting bas-relief was found about the 
middle of the 17th century, at Frattochi, the ancient Bovillce, on the 
Appian road, ten miles from Rome. It was for many years in the 
Colonna Palace, at Rome, and was purchased for the British Museum 
in the year 1819, at the expense of XT 000. 
Nos. 21*. 22*. Two feet covered with sandals. They have be* 
longed to the same statue, and are in beautiful preservation/ 
No. 23*. A bas-relief, representing a comic and a tragic mask. 
No. 24*. Ditto, representing four Bacchic masks. Purchased in 
1818. 
No. 25*. A tragic mask. 
No. 24. A statue of Pan : formerly preserved in the Macaroin 
Palace at Rome. Pt. 2. PI. xxiv. 
No. 25. A terminal head of Homer, represented in an advanced 
age, with a sublime and dignified character : it was found among some 
ruins at Baise, in 1780. Pt. 2. PI. xxv. 
No. 26. A bust of Sophocles: found about the year 1775, near 
Gensano, seventeen miles from Rome. Pt. 2. PI. xxvt. 
No. 27. A terminal head of the bearded Bacchus : formerly in the 
collection of Cardinal Alexander Albani, at Rome. It was brought to 
England by Mr. Lyde Browne. Pt. 2. PI. xxvii. 
No. 28. A statue of a nymph of Diana resting herself after the fa- 
tigues of the chase : found in 1766, near the Salarian gate of Rome, 
in the Villa Verospi, supposed to have been the site of the gardens of 
Sallust. Pt. 2. PI. xxviii. 
No. 29. An entire terminus of the bearded Bacchus, six feet high : 
found in 1771, at Baise, in digging a trench for the removal of an old 
vineyard. Pt. 2. PI. xxix. 
No. 30. A terminal head of the bearded Bacchus : found with the 
preceding bust at Baise, in 1771. Pt. 2. PI. xxx. 
No. 31. A statue of a youth holding with both hands a part of an 
arm which he is biting. This statue belonged to a group, originally 
composed of two boys who had quarrelled at the game of Tali, as ap- 
pears by one of those bones called tali remaining in the hand of the 
figure which is lost. It was found in the baths of Titus at Rome, 
during the pontificate of Urban VIII. Mr. Townley obtained it from 
the Barberini Palace, in 1768. Pt. 2. PI. xxxi. 
