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room hi. Mount Parnassus, the residence of the Muses ; 
Antiquities, before the poet is a group of figures offering up 
sacrifices to him* Above are Apollo and the 
Nine Muses ; and on the summit of the moun¬ 
tain is Jupiter, who appears to be giving his 
sanction to the divine honours which are paid 
to Homer. This highly interesting bas-relief 
was found about the middle of the l?th century, 
at Frattochi, the ancient Bovillse, in the Appian 
road, ten miles from Rome. It was for many 
years in the Colonna Palace, at Rome, and was 
purchased for the British Museum in the year 
2819. 
Nos. 21*, 22*. Two feet covered with san¬ 
dals. They have belonged to the same statue, 
and are in beautiful preservation. 
No. 23*. A bas-relief, representing a comic 
and a tragic mask. 
No. 24*. Ditto, representing four Bacchic 
masks. Purchased in 1818. 
No. 25*. A tragic mask. 
No. 24. A statue of a Faun. Pt. 2. PI. xxiv. 
No. 25. A terminal head of Homer, repre¬ 
sented in an advanced age, with a sublime and 
dignified character. Pt. 2. PI. xxv. 
No. 26. A bust of Sophocles. Pt. 2. PL xxvi. 
No. 26*. A very ancient Greek inscription, 
known by the title of the “ Marinor Atheni- 
ense.” It relates to a survey of some temple 
at Athens, supposed to be the Erechtheium. 
Brought 
