226 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [[ROOM VI, 
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 visible. 
No. 55. A bust of Gordianus Africanus the elder, 
dressed in the Roman toga. 
No. 56. A sphinx, which anciently formed part of the 
base of a superb candelabrum. 
No. 57- The front of the cover of a magnificent sar¬ 
cophagus. 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 ter¬ 
minates 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 contained the fine 
African sand with which, when mixed with oil, the 
Athletse rubbed their bodies before they exercised. 
A votive foot covered with a sandal, and having a ser¬ 
pent twined round it as in the one before described. 
A colossal hand. 
A mask of Bacchus. 
No. 58. A head of Sabina. 
No. 59. A sepulchral cippus, with an inscription to 
M. Ccelius Superstes. 
Upon it, an Egyptian tumbler, practising his art on 
the back of a tame crocodile. 
No. 60. A mall statue of a muse, sitting on a rock, 
holding a lyre in her left hand ; the plinth is inscribed 
EYMOYZI A. 
No. 61. An unknown bust of a middle-aged man. 
