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GR^CO-ROMAN BASEMENT ROOM. 
two ornamental standards; perhaps originally a perirrhanterion, or 
font, at the entrance of a temple, for the purification of those who 
sought admission to a sacrifice. Purchased, with the preceding, from 
the Odescalchi collection, 
IV. Candelabra, and fragments of Candelabra. 
In the second recess: Seated sphinx, from the base of a magnificent 
candelabrum : it combines the head of a woman, the body and legs of 
a greyhound, the wings of a bird, and the tail of a lion; between the 
shoulders is a columnar block, which supported probably one angle of 
the candelabrum. Found, in 1780, in the Villa of Antoninus Pius, 
near Civita Lavinia, on the site of the ancient Lanuvium. Pt. 10. 
PI. XXXI. 
Against ihe adjoining pier: Bas-relief representing, on a sunk 
panel, a candelabrum surmounted by a lighted lamp, and decorated 
with lemnisci, or fillets, which terminate in poppy-heads, perhaps in 
honour of Ceres: it is probably from the interior wall of a temple. 
Formerly in the Mattei Collection. Pt. 2. PI. ii. 
Underneath: Panel supposed to have ornamented the triangular 
base of a candelabrum : upon it, a Bacchante in bas-relief, wearing a 
linen cap, and thin floating drapery, and brandishing, as she dances, a 
knife, and the hind part of a kid: supposed to be copied from the 
;^ipoc/^o;poyo; of Scopas, who flourished about B.c. 360. Pt. 10. 
Pi. XXXV. 
Triangular base of a candelabrum, resting on three lions’ feet, and 
the sides decorated, in bas-relief, with a tripod, a raven beside a 
laurel-tree, and a gryphon, all sacred to the Hyperborean Apollo. 
Formerly in a Palace in the Strada Condotto, at Rome. Pt. 10. 
PI. Liv. fig. 1. 
Triangular base of a candelabrum, of which three other repetitions 
exist in foreign Museums; the upper angles are decorated with rams’ 
heads, and the lower with the fore-parts of sphinxes; on the panels 
are infant Cupids bearing armour; perhaps sacred to Mars {Ares'). 
Pt. 1. PI. VI. 
Between these: Base of a small candelabrum, ornamented, in low 
relief, with festoons of fruit and flowers, with a stork on one side, and 
a vase on another. Pt. 10. PL lam . fig. 1. 
In the third recess: Candelabrum with a modern base, w’hich is 
decorated with three b£Ls-reliefs originally belonging to another can¬ 
delabrum, and representing the frantic Agave dancing with the head 
of her son Pentheus, a Victory pouring a libation, and a Satyr bearing 
a wine-skin. The upper part found in the Villa of Antoninus Pius. 
Pt. 1. PI. V. 
V. Animals. 
On the first bracket: Butterfly, held in the left hand of a female, 
life-size; perhaps belonging to a statue of Psyche. 
On the second bracket: Small ram’s head, in the right hand of a 
child. 
Between these: Fragment of a bas-relief, with four horses’ heads, 
and the hand of a man leading the foremost; part of a quadriga. 
In the second window: Group of two greyhounds, life-size, seated, 
and fondling each other. Found, in 1774, with several other sculptures 
of dogs, on Monte Cagnuolo, within the precincts of the Villa of Anto- 
