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ing a round leathern bucket suspended from his left arm. 
The head is covered with a mariner’s bonnet, and a 
dolphin serves as a support to the figure. 
No. 46. A small scenic figure, sitting on a square 
plinth. The face is covered with a comic mask. 
No. 47. A head of one of the Homeric heroes. It 
is highly animated, and is looking upwards, apparently 
in great agitation. Pt. 2. PI. xxm. 
No. 48, A small statue of Jupiter sitting. He is re¬ 
presented in his two-fold capacity, as king of the upper 
and lower regions. 
No. 49. A Greek funeral monument of Democles, 
the son of Democles, with a bas-relief and an inscription 
in eight elegiac verses. It was brought from Smyrna. 
Presented, in 1772, by Matthew Duane, Esq., and 
Thomas Tyrwhilt, Esq. 
No. 50. A votive altar sacred to Bacchus. On the 
front, Silenus is represented riding on a panther. 
Upon it, a votive statue of a fisherman, holding a 
basket of fish in his left hand. 
No. 51. A bust of Caracalla; the head only is an¬ 
tique. 
No. 52. A group of two dogs, one of which is biting 
the ear of the other in play. 
No. 53. An unknown bust, dressed in the Roman 
toga. 
No. 54. A bas-relief, representing Priam in the act 
of supplicating Achilles to deliver to him the body of 
his son Hector. 
Upon it, a head of a female child. The hair is 
divided into plaits, which are twisted into a knot on 
the back part of the head. Some of the red paint, with 
which the hair was originally coloured, is still visible. 
No. 55. A bust of Gordianus Africanus the elder, 
dressed in the Roman toga. 
No. 56. A sphinx, which anciently formed part of 
the base of a superb candelabrum. 
No. 57. The front of the cover of a magnificent sar¬ 
cophagus. 
