200 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ROOM VI. 
marble was brought from Athens by Dr. Anthony Askew, at whose sale 
it was purchased in 1775, by Mr. Townley. 
No. 24. An altar, on which various Egyptian figures are represented. 
It is of Roman work. This altar, as well as the one above,.(No. 19,) 
are engraved in the Museum Odescalchum, fol. Rom. 1752. 
Upon it, a statue of a Satyr. 
No. 25. A head of an Amazon, in the early style of Greek sculp¬ 
ture. It was brought from Rome by Mr. Lyde Browne. 
No. 26. A figure of Victory sacrificing a bull. This, with the si¬ 
milar group, (No. 31,) was found in 1773, by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, in 
the ruins of the villa of Antoninus Pius, near the ancient Lanuvium. 
No. 27. A bust of Hadrian with the imperial paludamentum. It 
was found in the grounds of the Cavaliero Lolli, which joined to those 
of the Conte Fede, and occupied a part of that Emperor’s villa near 
Tivoli. Mr. Townley purchased it in 1768. 
No. 28. 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 somewdiat 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 
downwards, 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. 
Upon it a head of a child. 
No. 29. A bust of Severus with the imperial paludamentum. It 
was found in 1776, on the Palatine Hill, in the part of the Palace of the 
Caesars afterwards occupied by the Villa Magnani. 
No. 30. A sarcophagus, in the centre of which is the portrait of an 
elderly man, placed in the inside of a shield, which is supported by two 
Genii. Formerly in the Burioni Villa, near the Salarian Gate of Rome. 
Upon it, three tiles, in terracotta, brought from Athens. The fronts 
are ornamented with a border of the honeysuckle pattern, and in the 
centre of each is a head of a lion, for carrying off* the water. Pur¬ 
chased in 1815. 
Underneath, a colossal foot of Apollo, Presented, in 1784, by Sir 
William Hamilton. 
No. 31. A figure of Victory sacrificing a bull. (See No. 26.) 
No. 32. A head of Faustina, the wife of Marcus Aurelius. It was 
purchased in a private house at Pozzuolo, in 1777. 
No. 33. A sepulchral cippus, with an inscription to Viria Primi- 
tiva. 
Upon it, a triangular base of a small candelabrum. 
No. 34. An Eagle. 
No. 35. Bust of the Empress Faustina the younger. Presented by 
P. Du Come , Esq., 1838. 
No. 36. A statue of Diana Lucifera, of which the head and arms 
are lost. It was found at Woodchester, in the county of Gloucester. 
Presented, in 1811, by Samuel Lysons, Esq. 
No. 37. A Greek sepulchral monument, with a bas-relief, and an 
inscription to Isias, who was a native of Laodicea, and daughter of Me- 
trodorus. Brought from Smyrna. Presented, in 1772, by Matthew 
Duane, Esq., and Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esq. 
