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ro om h i. back; one of the bearded Bacchus, the other of 
Antiquities* Libera. 
No. 18. A statue of the goddess of Fortune. 
No. 19. A terminal head of the bearded Bac¬ 
chus, of very early Greek work. 
No. 20. A head of Hippocrates. 
No. 20*. A Greek funeral monument, with a 
bas-relief and an inscription. It is to the me¬ 
mory of a person named Alexander, a native of 
Bithynia. This marble was brought from Smyr¬ 
na, and was presented to the Museum, in 1772, 
by Matthew Duane, Esq. and Thomas Tyr- 
whitt, Esq. 
No. 21. A terminal head of Mercury. Pur¬ 
chased, in 1812, at the sale of Antiquities belong¬ 
ing to William Chinnery , Esq . 
No. 22. A statue of Venus. 
No. 23. A bas-relief, representing the apo¬ 
theosis, or deification, of Homer. The Father 
of Poetry is seated on a throne at the foot of 
Mount Parnassus, the residence of the Muses ; 
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 17th century, 
at Frattochi, the ancient Boviilm, in the Appian 
road, ten miles from Borne. It was for many 
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