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Horsley “ lying neglected in the mill at Chesterford, 
Essex.” It was afterwards procured by Dr. Foote 
Gower, from a blacksmith, who had used it as a cistern 
for cooling his irons. In 1780, Thomas Brand Hollis 
received it from the Doctor’s widow, and 'presented it , 
1803. 
An altar, with a Greek inscription, dedicated by Dio- 
dora, a high priestess, to the Tyrian Hercules. One 
side is decorated with a bull’s head and sacrificing-knife, 
the other with a crown. It was found at Corbridge, in 
Northumberland, and presented by His Grace the Duke 
of Northumberland , 1774. 
A bas-relief, representing a Roman standard of the 
second legion, between a Pegasus and Capricorn ; un¬ 
derneath is leg. II. AVG. 
A colossal head, marble. 
A small Roman altar, with a bas-relief in front, of Mars, 
as a Roman general, holding a spear and shield. 
A small Roman altar, similar to the preceding. 
A pig of lead. 
EIGHTH ROOM. 
At present unoccupied. 
NINTH or ANTE-ROOM, (up stairs.) 
To the left, at the foot of the stairs leading to this 
room, a circular vase, or capital of a sepulchral cippus, 
decorated with foliage and the symbolical serpent. 
No. 1. In the centre of the room 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 Portland 
Vase. It was found about "the middle of the sixteenth 
century, two miles and a half from Rome, in the road 
leading from Frascati. At the time of its discovery, 
the vase was inclosed in a marble sarcophagus, within 
a sepulchral chamber under the Mount called Monte 
di Grano. The material of which the vase is formed 
is glass: the figures, which are executed in relief, are 
