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room vi. No. 58. A sepulchral cippus, without an in- 
Anticu7tiss. scription. On the front, beneath a festoon, which 
is composed of fruits and foliage, and is suspend¬ 
ed from the skulls of bulls, are two birds perch¬ 
ed on the edge of a vase, out of which they are 
drinking. 
No. 59 . A Greek sepulchral urn, with a bas- 
relief in front; it is inscribed with the names of 
Pytharatus and Herophilus. From the collection 
of Sir Hans Sloane . 
No. 60 . A Grecian altar. Presented hy Sir 
William Hamilton . 
No. 6 l. A head of Minerva. 
No. 62 . A Greek funeral monument of De- 
mocles, the son of Democles, with a bas relief, 
and an inscription in eight elegiac verses. It 
w^as brought from Smyrna. Presented by Mat¬ 
thew Duane , Esq. and Thomas Tyrwhitt , Esq. 
No. 63. A statue of Bacchus, represented as 
a boy about five years old. The head is crowned 
with a wreath of ivy, and the body is partly 
covered with the skin of a goat. 
No. 64. The front of a votive altar, with an 
inscription for the safe return of Septimius Severns 
and his family from some expedition. The parts 
in the inscription which are erased contained the 
name of Geta, which by a severe edict of Cara¬ 
cal la, was ordered to be erased from every inscrip¬ 
tion throughout the empire. 
