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ROOM VI.] GREEK AND ROMAN SCULPTURES. 
No. 38. A triangular base of a candelabrum, the sides of which are 
ornamented with the attributes of Apollo; namely, a griffin, a raven, 
and a tripod. It was purchased out of a palace in the Strada de’ Con- 
dotti at Rome. 
No. 39. A head of Plautilla, the wife of the Emperor Caracalla. 
No. 40. A statue of Libera, holding a thyrsus over her right shoul¬ 
der, and a bunch of grapes in her left hand; at her feet is a panther. 
It was found by Mr. Gavin Hamilton at Roma Vecchia, a few miles 
from Rome, on the road to Frascati. 
No. 41. A head of Atys. It was found at Rome, in the Villa Pa- 
lombara. 
No. 42. A head of an unknown female, the hair elegantly bound 
with broad fillets. It seems to be the fragment of a statue, and was 
found about the year 1784, in an excavation made by the then Duke of 
St. Alban’s and Mr. Brand, in grounds belonging to the Cesarini family, 
near Gensano. 
No. 43. A statue of Ceres, crowned in the manner of Isis: formerly 
in the Macaroni palace at Rome. 
No. 44. A head of Nero. It was brought from Athens by Dr. 
Askew, in 1740. 
No. 45. A sepulchral cippus, without an inscription. On the front, 
beneath a festoon, which is composed of fruits and foliage, and is sus¬ 
pended from the skulls of bulls, are two birds perched on the edge of 
a vase, out of which they are drinking. 
Upon it, a votive statue of a fisherman, who is carrying a round lea¬ 
thern bucket, suspended from his left arm. The head is covered with 
a mariner’s bonnet, and a dolphin serves as a support to the figure. 
No. 46. A small scenic figure, sitting on a square plinth. The face 
is covered with a comic mask. It was found, with many other pieces of 
sculpture, in the Villa Fonsega, on the Ceelian Hill, in 1773. 
No. 47. A head of one of the Homeric heroes. It is highly ani¬ 
mated, and is looking upwards, apparently in great agitation. It was 
found, in 1771, by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, in that part of Hadrian’s villa 
now called the Pantanella. Pt. 2. PI. xxm. 
No. 48. A small statue of Jupiter sitting. He is represented in his 
two bid capacity, as king of the upper and lower regions. 
No. 49. A Greek funeral monument of Democles, the son of De- 
mocles, with a bas-relief and an inscription in eight elegiac verses. It 
was brought from Smyrna. Presented , in 1772, by Matthew Duane , 
Esq ., and Thomas Tyrwhitt , Esq. 
No. 50. A votive altar sacred to Bacchus. On the front, Silenus 
is represented riding on a panther. This altar was purchased at Rome 
from Piranesi, in 1771. 
Upon it is a votive statue of a fisherman, holding a basket of fish in 
his left hand. Purchased at Rome. 
No. 51. A bust of Caracalla; the head only is antique. It was 
found in 1776, in the Garden of the Nuns, at the Quattro Fontani, on 
the Esquiline Hill. 
No. 52. A group of two dogs, one of which is biting the ear of the 
other in play. Found in 1774, by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, at Monte 
Cagnuolo, within the precincts of the vil of Antoninus Pius. 
