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roomvi. scription. On the front, beneath a festoon 
Antiquities, which is composed of fruits and foliage, and is 
suspended from the skulls of bulls, are two birds 
perched on the edge of a vase, out of which 
they are drinking. 
No. 58*. A sun-dial. Purchased in 1821. 
No. 59. A Greek sepulchral urn, solid, and 
with a bas-relief in front; it is inscribed with 
the names of Pytharatus and Herophilus. From 
the collection of Sir Hans Sloane. 
No. 60. A Grecian altar. Presented , in 1775 , 
by Sir William Hamilton. 
No. 61. A head of Augustus. Purchased , in 
1812, at the sale of the late Right Hon. Edmund 
Burke’s Marbles. 
No. 62. A Greek funeral monument of De- 
mocles, the son of Democles, with a bas-relief 
and an inscription in eight elegiac verses. It 
was brought from Smyrna. Presented , in l^lZ^by 
Matthew Duane , Esq. and Thomas Tyrwhitt , Esq. 
No. 63. A statue of Bacchus, represented as 
a boy about five years old. The head is crowned 
with a wreath of ivy, and the body is partly co¬ 
vered with the skin of a goat. 
No. 64. The front of a votive altar, with an 
inscription for the safe return of Septimius Se- 
verus and his family from some expedition. The 
parts in the inscription 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. 
No. 65. 
