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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ROOM VI. 
Underneath, 
A fragment of a colossal toe. 
A fragment of a colossal foot. 
A votive foot, with a sandal. Round the foot a serpent 
is twined, with its head resting on the summit, which ter¬ 
minates a little above the ancle. 
An earthen vase, which has two handles at the neck 
and terminates in a point at the bottom, like an amphora. 
It was found in the baths of Titus, with above seventy 
others of the same sort; all of them contained the fine 
African sand with which, when mixed with oil, the 
Athletm rubbed their bodies before they exercised. 
A votive foot covered with a sandal, and having a ser¬ 
pent twined round it as in the one before described. 
A colossal hand. 
A mask of Bacchus. 
No. 58. A head of Sabina. 
No. 59. A sepulchral cippus, with an inscription to 
M. Coelius Superstes. 
Upon it, an Egyptian tumbler, practising his art on 
the back of a tame crocodile. 
No. 60. A small statue of a muse, sitting on a rock, 
holding a lyre in her left hand ; the plinth is inscribed 
ETMOTSIA. 
No. 61. An unknown bust of a middle-aged man. 
The hair of the head and beard is short and bushy; the 
left shoulder is covered with part of the chlamys; the 
right shoulder and breast are uncovered. On the plinth 
is an inscription, signifying that L. iEmilius Fortunatus 
dedicates the bust to his friend. 
No. 62. A small statue of Hercules, sitting on a rock, 
with the apples of the Hesperides in his left hand. 
No. 63. A Greek sepulchral monument, with a bas- 
relief, and an inscription to Exacestes, and Metra his wife. 
No. 64. The front of a votive altar, with an inscrip¬ 
tion for the safe return of Septimius Severus and his 
family from some expedition. The parts in the inscrip¬ 
tion which are erased contained the name of Geta, which, 
by a severe edict of Caracalla, was ordered to be erased 
from every inscription throughout the Roman empire. 
Upon it, a small statue of a Muse, sitting on a rock and 
playing on a lyre. 
