202 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ROOM VI. 
No. 53. A bust of the young Marcellus, erected to his memory by 
the Decemvirs, as is indicated by this inscription on the plinth: de¬ 
cemviri . stlitibvs . ivdicandis. Stlitibus is an archaism for litibus. 
Found in an excavation near Rome in 1776. 
No. 54. A bas-relief, representing Priam in the act of supplicating 
Achilles to deliver to him the body of his son Hector. 
Upon it, a head of a female child. The hair is divided into plaits, 
which are twisted into a knot on the back part of the head. Some of 
the red paint, with which the hair was originally coloured, is still vi¬ 
sible. 
No. 55. A bust of Gordianus Africanus the elder, dressed in the 
Roman toga. 
No. 56. A winged sphinx, which anciently formed part of the base 
of a superb candelabrum. It was found by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, in 
the ruins of the villa of Antoninus Pius, near the ancient Lanuvium. 
No. 57. The front of the cover of a magnificent sarcophagus. It 
represents a group of cattle, on one side of which is an old Faun, and 
on the other a young Faun, both recumbent. 
Upon it, two tiles in terracotta, brought from Athens ; the fronts are 
painted. Purchased in 1815. 
Underneath, 
A fragment of a colossal toe. 
A fragment of a colossal foot. 
A votive foot, with a sandal. Round the foot a serpent is twined, 
with its head resting on the summit, which terminates a little above the 
ancle. 
An earthen vase, which has two handles at the neck and terminates 
in a point at the bottom, like an amphora. It was found in the baths 
of Titus, with above seventy others of the same sort; all of them con¬ 
tained the fine African sand with which, when mixed with oil, the 
Athletse rubbed their bodies before they exercised. f 
A votive foot covered with a sandal, and having a serpent twined 
round it as in the one before described. 
A colossal hand. 
A mask of Bacchus ; the pupils of the eyes perforated. 
No. 58. A bust of Julia Sabina, daughter of Matidia, whose mother 
was Marciana, the sister of Trajan. 
No. 59. A square sepulchral cippus, with an inscription to M. Cce- 
lius Superstes. 
Upon it, an Egyptian tumbler, practising his art on the back of a 
tame crocodile. This sculpture was brought from Rome by the first 
Lord Cawdor. 
No. 60. A small statue of a muse, sitting on a rock, holding a lyre 
in her left hand; the plinth is inscribed ETMOT2IA, the giver of har¬ 
mony. 
No. 61. An unknowm bust of a middle-aged man : round the base 
on which the bust rests is an inscription signifying that L. ASmilius For- 
tunatus dedicates this bust to his friend. The hair of the head and beard 
is short and bushy; the left shoulder is covered with part of the chlamys; 
the right shoulder and breast are uncovered. 
No. 62. A small statue of Hercules sitting on a rock, with a 
