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DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES. 
the fire at Richmond House, Whitehall, December 21, 1791. Pur¬ 
chased in 1821. 
Head of Venus, of similar type to the Medicean. From the collec¬ 
tion of Sir W Hamilton. 
Statue of Venus, preparing for the bath, heroic size ; by her side a 
vase, covered with drapery; a variety of the Venus of the Capitoline 
Museum. Presented by King William /F., 1834. 
Small statue of Venus, wrongly restored, liaving originally held 
some object in contact with her chin. Found at Ostia^ 1775. Pt. 2. 
PI. XXII. 
Small torso of Venus, stooping; placed on a modern pedestal in 
the form of a vase. From Rome. Pt. 10. PI. xx. 
Statue of Venus or Dione, half-draped, heroic size; the right hand 
and left arm modern. Found in the Maritime Baths of ClaudiuSy at 
Ostia, 1776. Pt. 1. PI. viii. 
Statue of Ceres {Demeter), small life-size, wdth the attributes of 
Isis ; she w'ears a long tunic and pallium; on her head is a disc between 
two serpents, surmounted by ears of corn, and in her left hand a situla, 
or sacred bucket; the right is a restoration. Formerly in the Maca¬ 
roni Palace, at Rome. Pt. 10. PI. xix. 
Bust of Juno {Hera), wearing a sphendone, or broad fillet. From 
Rome. 
The West door leads to the 
SECOND GR^CO-ROMAN SALOON. 
This small apartment is appropriated to the representations of human 
personages. 
Statue of a Discobolus, of Pentelic marble, life-size, in the attitude 
of throwing the discus, or quoit; supposed to be a copy of the 
celebrated bronze statue of Myro, of which two other antique repeti¬ 
tions in marble, slightly varied, exist at Rome : upon the plinth ap¬ 
pear the remains of a defaced inscription. Found, in 1791, in the 
ruins of the supposed pinacntheca, or picture-gallery, of Hadrian's 
Villa Tiburtina. 
Mutilated group of two boys, quarrelling over the game of astragali, 
or osselets, life-size ; of one figure the right hand and part of the 
arm alone remain ; the plinth is modern. Found in the Baths of 
Titus, at Rome, where Pliny says that a bronze of the same subject, by 
Polycletus, was preserved. Pt. 2. Pl.xxxi. 
Small statue of a fisherman, in a rough woollen garment, holding 
in his right hand a small fish, and in his left a basket. From Rome. 
Pt. 10. PL XXIX. 
Small statue of a fisherman, probably votive, with a basket on his 
left arm, and at his side a dolphin. Pt. 10. PI. xxviii. 
Small statue of a comic actor, seated, wearing a mask and socci, 
or comic shoes. Found, in 1773, in the Villa Fonsega, Rome. Pt. 
10. PI. XLIII., fig. 1. 
Small statue of an Egyptian or Nubian tumbler, practising his art 
upon the back of a tame crocodile. Brought from Rome by the first 
Lord Cawdor. Pt. 10. PI. xxvii. 
The individual representations, or portraits, are as follows : 
