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GR^CO-ROMAN BASEMENT ROOM. 
rated^ in relief, with shells and heads of animals. Presented by Charles 
TowneJey, Esq. {the founder of this collection), in 1786. 
In the fourth window: Small circular fountain; ornamented, dia¬ 
gonally, with four small gradines, and between them, four bas-reliefs of 
Bacchic figures. Presented with the preceding. 
X. Masks. > 
Over the sun-dial are arranged the following: Mask of the youth¬ 
ful Bacchus, crowned with ivy-berries bound into a diadem; it was 
originally suspended by a loop of metal still remaining, either as an 
ornament in a theatre, or perhaps from the branch of a tree in a vine¬ 
yard, to produce fertility, like the “ oscilla'' of Virgil. Prom the collec¬ 
tion of Sir William Hamilton. Pt. 10. PI. XL. fig. 7. 
Below: Mask of a bearded satyr, or Silenus, also originally sus¬ 
pended in one of the modes referred to. 
Between these: Small Mosaic, representing a mask of a satyr, 
Silenus, or perhaps a Pan, expressing in his own features the ’ wild 
terror attributed to his influence. 
The masks at the sides of this are distinctly scenic {personce). 
Bas-relief of a comic and a tragic mask, the former crowned with the 
ferula, a plant sacred to Bacchus. Pt. 2, vignette. 
Small female tragic mask, the hair in formal plaits. 
Below, on a pedestal: Similar mask, of larger dimensions. For¬ 
merly in the collection of Sir W. Hamilton. 
On the other pedestal: Female mask, such as w^as placed on the 
face of a corpse. From the same collection. 
Against the next pier: Representations of masks, such as were used 
in the satyr!c drama of the Greeks. 
Above : Marble panel, revolving on a pivot, sculptured on one side 
with a thyrsus and four masks, representing a bearded Bacchus, a 
Satyr, and two Bacchantes ; on the other side, in lower relief, the mask 
of a Bacchante. Such panels, fixed in this manner, were used in 
Roman houses for window^s or ventilators. Purchased in 1818. 
Underneath : Bas-relief of a mask of Pan, with a syrinx. 
XL Ornamental Discs {clypea), sculptured in relief onboth sides; 
originally suspended by chains in the intercolumniations of colonnades, 
in Pompeian and Homan houses, and also probably in theatres. 
Between the fourth and fifth windows, on a bracket: Disc, having 
on one side the full face of a bearded Satyr, or Pan, crowmed with ivy, 
and encircled by an oak-wreath; on the other, in low relief, the 
head of a Silenus, a branch of ivy, and a lighted altar. Pt. 2. PI. 
XL. 
On the adjoining bracket: Disc, having on one side an eagle seizing 
a hare, encircled by .an ivy-wreath ; on the other, Cupid sacrificing to 
the god of Lampsacus. Found near Rome. Pt. 2. PL xxxvin. 
Between the fifth and sixth windows, on a bracket: Disc, probably 
from a theatre; on one side, a bearded mask, w'ith the legend 
NEVivs . poeta . CAP., intended apparently as a memorial of 
the early Roman dramatist: on the other, a panther, wath a thyrsus. 
From the collection of Sir W. Hamilton. 
On the remaining bracket: Disc, having on one side a Pan, holding 
in his right hand a mask of Silenus, and in his left a pedum; on the 
