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ROOM VI. 
Antiquities. 
No. 17. A votive altar, sacred to Apollo. 
No. 17*. A bas-relief, representing a female 
Bacchante clothed in thin floating drapery, 
through which the beautiful forms of her body 
are perfectly apparent. With one hand, which 
is held somewhat above her head, she holds a 
knife, and at the same time secures a portion of 
her robe which is blown behind her ; with the 
other hand which is held downward, she carries 
the hind quarters of a kid. This piece of sculp¬ 
ture was originally one of the ornamental figures 
on the triangular base of a candelabrum. 
No. 18. A head of Apollo Musagetes, resem¬ 
bling, in the disposition of the hair and in the 
character of the face, the head of a Muse. 
No. 19. A Greek inscription, being a decree 
of the people of Athens and of the Piraeus, in 
honour of Callidamas. Presented , in 1785, by 
the Dilettanti Society . 
No. 20. A votive statue of Diana triformis, 
with a dedicatory inscription found the plinth. 
No. 21. An altar of Roman work, ornamented 
with Egyptian figures. 
No. 22. A bust, inscribed to the memory of 
Cl. Olympias, by Epithymetus, her freed-man. 
Purchased , in 1812, at the sale of the late Right 
Hon . Edmund Burke 9 s Marbles. 
No. 23. A funeral monument of Xanthippus, 
who is represented sitting in a chair, and hold¬ 
ing a human foot in his right hand. 
No. 24. 
