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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[ROOM XU. 
No, 51. A shelf, containing 
A head of Tiberius. 
A bust, inscribed to the memory of Cl. Olympias, by Epithymetus, 
her freed-man. 
A head of Augustus. All purchased, in 1812, at the sale of the late 
Right Hon. Edmund Burke's Marbles. 
A Greek inscription, originally placed under a statue of Jupiter 
Urius, which stood within a temple erected to that deity at the mouth of 
the Pontus. Spon and Wheler saw it inserted in the wall of a private 
dwelling at Chalcedon. Presented, in 1809, by Miss Mead. 
Underneath, a bas-relief, representing the goddess Luna surrounded 
by the signs of the zodiac. Presented , in 1818, by Col. de Bosset. 
No. 52. A seated figure of Cybele. Presented by J. S. Gaskoin , 
Esq., 1836. 
No. 52*. A terminal statue of a Faun. 
No. 53. A very ancient Greek inscription, known by the title of the 
“ Marmor Atheniense. ” It relates to a survey of some temple at 
Athens, supposed to be the Erechtheium. Brought to England by 
Dr. Chandler , and presented to the British Museum, in 1785, by the 
Dilettanti Society. 
No. 54. A large sepulchral cippus, with an inscription to Agria 
Agatha. 
Upon it is a small domestic fountain, used for sacred purposes. It is 
decorated with four flights of steps, and four figures of Satyrs and Fauns 
in bas-relief. 
No. 55. A bronze statue of Apollo. Purchased at M. Lallemand 
de Choiseuis sale at Paris , in 1774. Pt. 3. PI. vn. 
Beneath is one of the feet, or supports, of an ancient tripod table, 
executed in porphyry. It represents the head and leg of a Panther: 
Pt. 3. PI. vm. 
TWELFTH ROOM. * 
GREEK AND ROMAN SCULPTURES. 
No. 1. A head of Juno, crowned with a broad indented diadem . 
placed upon 
An upright narrow piece of marble, ornamented with branches of the 
olive and the vine. 
No. 2. A shelf, containing 
An unknown female head ; the sockets of the eyes are hollow, and 
have been originally filled with coloured stones, or some other ma¬ 
terial. 
A head of Diana. 
An unknown female head, with a broad fillet across the forehead. 
Underneath, an epitaph on a dog. From the collection of Sir Hans 
Sloane. Upon this is placed 
Cupid, in his character of Somnus, sleeping upon the skin of a Lion. 
This sculpture was found in a vineyard belonging to the Marchese 
Capponi, near the Flaminian Gate of Rome : it once belonged to Car¬ 
dinal Alessandro Albani, from whose collection it passed to Mr. Lyde 
Browne, and from him to Mr. Townley. 
No. 3. An unknown head. 
