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at Rome, and thence called the Rondini Faun. The torso only is 
antique, and the restoration represents a satyr playing on the cym¬ 
bals. 
A statue of a Discobolus, who is represented in the attitude of 
throwing the discus or quoit, supposed to be a copy in marble of the 
celebrated bronze statue made by the sculptor Myro. Found, in 
1791, in the grounds of the Conte Fede, in the part of Hadrian’s 
Villa Tiburtina, supposed to have been the pinacotheca or picture 
gallery. 
A statue of Isis, apparently in the character of Ceres; formerly in 
the Macaroni Palace at Rome. 
A statue of Libera, or of Ariadne, holding a thyrsus over her right 
shoulder, and a bunch of grapes in her left hand ; at her feet is a 
panther. It was found by Mr. Gavin Hamilton at Roma Vecchia, a 
few miles from Rome, on the road to Frascati. 
In the centre of this room are placed two models of the Parthenon 
at Athens, made by Mr. R. C. Lucas; one exhibits the condition in 
which this temple appeared after the bombardment by the Venetian 
general, Morosini, in a.d. 1687 ; the other the same edifice restored. 
Inscription found at Smyrna, containing a list of the words of Her- 
mogenes, an ancient topographical writer. 
ELGIN SALOON *. 
Many of the sculptures in this Room having been referred to, in 
various publications, by the numbers with which they were marked in 
their former situation, those numbers have been retained: but, to faci¬ 
litate a reference from the Synopsis to the marbles, a fresh set of 
numbers, adapted to their present disposition, has been added, which 
will easily be distinguished from the former by being painted in red. 
The general order observed in affixing these numbers to the several 
objects is as follows : — 
1. The metopes of the Parthenon. 
2. The frieze of the Parthenon, commencing on the left hand of 
the visitor as he enters the room. 
3. Such of the sculptures placed along the middle of the room, as 
belonged to the eastern and western pediments of the Parthenon. 
4. The remaining articles placed along the middle of the room. 
5. The casts and bas-reliefs above the frieze on the eastern side of 
the room (those nearest the entrance being taken last in order). 
6. All the objects below the frieze, taken in their order of posi¬ 
tion, and commencing, as before, on the left of the entrance. 
The original numbers are subjoined to the descriptions. Those 
which have the letter A prefixed refer to such articles as were originally 
placed in the room then denominated the Fourteenth. 
Nos. 1—16. Sixteen of the metopes belonging to the Parthenon, 
(of which No. 9 is a cast in plaster, from the original in the Royal Mu¬ 
seum at Paris,) which, alternately with the triglyphs, ornament the 
frieze of the entablature surmounting the colonnade : they represent the 
battle between the Centaurs and Lapithse, or rather between the Cen- 
* All the articles in this room, except a few which are particularly specified, 
"belonged to the Earl of Elgin. 
