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No. 21. A statue of Mercury, sleeping upon a rock. 
No. 22. A Grecian altar. Presented , in 1775, by Sir 
William Hamilton . 
Upon it is a statue of Bacchus, represented as a boy 
about five years old. The head is crowned with a 
wreath of ivy, and the body is partly covered with the 
skin of a goat. 
No. 23. A statue of Cupid bending his bow. Pur- 
chased , in 1812, at the sale of the late Right Hon . Ed¬ 
mund Burke’s Marbles. 
No. 24. A bronze statue of Hercules, carrying away 
the apples from the garden of the Hesperides. Pt. 3. 
PI. ii. 
Beneath, is one of the feet, or supports, of an ancient 
tripod table. Pt. 3. PI. in. 
No. 25. A large sepulchral cippus, with an inscrip¬ 
tion to M. Clodius Herma, Annius Felix, and Tyran- 
nus. 
Upon it is a circular sepulchral vessel of stone, in¬ 
scribed with the name of Phaenariste, the wife of Philo- 
phanus. 
No. 26. A Greek funereal monument, with a bas- 
relief and an inscription. It is to the memory of a 
person named Alexander, a native of Bithynia. This 
marble , brought from Smyrna , was 'presented to the Mu¬ 
seum, in 1772, by Matthew Duane , Esq., and Thomas 
Tyrwhitt , Esq . 
No. 27- A small statue of Neptune, standing, with a 
dolphin by his side. Presented by J. S. Gaskoin , Esq., 
1836. 
No. 28. A shelf, containing 
An unknown bust, the head perfectly bald. 
An unknown bust of a female. 
A bust of Diogenes the Cynic. All bequeathed by the 
late R. P. Knight , Esq. 
Underneath, . a fragment of a bas-relief, bearing a 
figure of a youthful PJercules. 
Part of a bas-relief, representing four horses* heads 
from a quadriga and a hand. 
No. 29. A chair, after the model of an invalid's 
chair : found in the Antonine Baths. 
A cinerary urn of marble ; on the cover is a recumbent 
