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ROOM X. 
Antiquities. 
ROOM XI. 
Antiquities. 
No. 93. A small domestic fountain,of a square 
form, which was used for sacred purposes. 
No. 94. A bust of Minerva ; the head only is 
antique. The helmet and the bust, which are 
of bronze, are, with some variations, copied from 
an ancient bust of Minerva which was formerly 
in the Vatican, but is now at Paris. 
No. 95. An upright narrow piece of marble, 
ornamented with branches of the olive and the 
pine. 
No. 96. A statue of an intoxicated Faun. 
No. 97. A statue of Mercury, sleeping upon 
a rock. 
ELEVENTH or ANTE-ROOM. 
No. 1. In the centre of this room, at the head 
of the stairs, is placed the celebrated Barberini 
vase, which was for more than two centuries the 
principal ornament of the Barberini Palace. 
This vase was purchased of Sir William Hamilton 
considerably more than thirty years ago, by the 
Duchess of Portland, since which period it has 
been generally known by the name of the Port¬ 
land Vase. It was found about the middle of the 
sixteenth century, two miles and a half from 
Rome, in the road leading to Frascati. At the 
time of its discovery, the vase was inclosed in a 
marble sarcophagus, within a sepulchral chamber 
under the Mount called Monte del Grano. The 
material of which the vase is formed is glass : the 
figures, 
