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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[ROOM VI, 
No. 14. A bas-relief, the front of a sarcophagus, representing Genii 
supporting various pieces of armour. On a shield, in the centre, is an 
inscription to Sallustius Iasius. It was found at Tusculum, and was for¬ 
merly in Cardinal Passionei’s hermitage at the Camaldoli, near Frascati. 
No. 15. A head of Jupiter. It was purchased by Mr. Townley. 
at the Duke of St. Alban’s sale. 
No. 16. A terminal statue of a youth represented with the attributes 
of Mercury : found near Frascati in 1770. 
No. 17. A votive altar, sacred to Apollo. 
No. 18. A head of Apollo Musagetes, resembling, in the disposition 
of the hair, and in the character of the face, the head of a Muse. It 
was brought from Rome by Mr. Lyde Browne. 
No. 19. An altar of Roman work, ornamented with Egyptian 
figures. 
Upon it, a votive statue of Diana Triformis, w ith a dedicatory in¬ 
scription round the plinth: formerly in the Giustiniani Palace at Rome. 
No. 20. A torso of a small statue of Venus. 
No. 21. A swan, in red marble : found in a vineyard adjoining the 
Villa Pinciani. 
No. 22. A small statue of Cupid bending his bow. It was found in 
1775, enclosed within a large amphora filled with earth, at Castello di 
Guido, about twelve miles from Rome, on the road to Civita Vecchia. 
No. 23. A funeral monument of Xanthippus, who is represented 
sitting in a chair, and holding a human foot in his right hand. This 
marble was brought from Athens by Dr. Anthony Askew', at whose sale 
it was purchased in 1775, by Mr. Townley. 
No. 24. An altar, on which various Egyptian figures are represented. 
It is of Roman work. This altar, as well as the one above, (No. 19,) 
are engraved in the Museum Odescalchum, fol. Rom. 1752. 
Upon it, a statue of a Satyr. 
No. 25. A head of an Amazon, in the early style of Greek sculp¬ 
ture. It was brought from Rome by Mr. Lyde Browne. 
No. 28. A figure of Victory sacrificing a bull. This, with the si¬ 
milar group, (No. 31,) was found in 1773, by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, in 
the ruins of the villa of Antoninus Pius, near the ancient L&nuvium. 
No. 27. A bust of Hadrian with the imperial paludamentum. It 
was found in the grounds of the Cavaliero Lolli, which joined to those 
of the Conte Fede, and occupied a part of that Emperor’s villa near 
Tivoli. Mr. Townley purchased it in 1768. 
No. 28. A bas-relief, representing a female Bacchante clothed in 
thin floating drapery, through which the beautiful forms of her body are 
perfectly apparent. With one hand, which is held somewhat above her 
head, she holds a knife, and at the same time secures a portion of her 
robe which is blown behind her; with the other hand, which is held 
downwards, she carries the hind quarters of a kid. This piece of sculp¬ 
ture was originally one of the ornamental figures on the triangular base 
of a candelabrum. 
Upon it a head of a child. 
No. 29. A bust of Severus with the imperial paludamentum. It 
was found in ] 776, on the Palatine Hill, in the part of the Palace of the 
Csesars afterwards occupied by the Villa Magnani. 
No. 30. A sarcophagus, in the centre of which is the portrait of an 
