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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[BRONZE 
figures, Salus, or Hygeia ; Artemis or Diana, holding a torch ; Cerbe¬ 
rus ; two statues of Diana, one on a globe; Diana, in silver, holding a 
crescent; Rhea, holding Jupiter ; Neptune, his foot on prow of a 
vessel, and holding a trident; Thetis, her head terminating in crabs’ 
claws ; Thetis, or a Nereid, probably mediaeval; three statues of Ceres ; 
or Juno, seated; Dionysos, Hygeia, and a Maenad(?). 
Case 79. Head, from a figure of Hecate, or the Artemis triformis ; 
Hecate, or the Artemis triformis, holding a dog, torch, &c.; head of Diana; 
a bust of Diana; four Dianas, one silver ; bust of Diana ; two figures 
of Vulcan ; Minerva Promachos; Minerva, probably holding an aeros- 
tolium, in bronze; the same, holding the owl, her emblem ; twelve 
figures of Minerva, some holding lances and bucklers; figure of one of 
the Dioscuri, from Paramythia. 
Cases 80—82. Various portions of phalerse, or Roman horse trappings. 
Case 83. Four busts of Minerva, one with Corinthian helmet, sur¬ 
mounted by a sphinx, and wdth rams’ heads on the cheek-plates ; seven 
figures of Mars, one completely armed, and another resembling the 
so-called Pyrrhus of the Museum of the Capitol; an emperor on horse¬ 
back ; two gladiators. 
Case 84. Twenty-one figures of Mercury, one of which is perhaps 
the most exquisite bronze in Europe; it has a gold torquis, or collar, round 
its neck, and was found at Huis; four figures of Mercury, in silver; 
before one are the cocks emblematic of the palaesta or athletic games 
over which Mercury presided; bust, leg, and arms for statues of Mercury; 
three busts; Mercury flying, mounted on the eagle of Jupiter, 
twenty-eight small figures of Aphrodite, or Venus, represented in 
different characters; as anadyomene, or just rising from the sea, 
and arranging her hair; holding a mirror, or covering her face when 
risen from the bath; in the attitudes of the Venus di Medici, and 
the Venus of the Capitol; adjusting her sandal; one represents her 
with two Cupids holding her mirrors and conch shells, and w r ith various 
pantheistic emblems ; another holding her dove, or riding on a sw 7 an, the 
former is the mutilated Venus from Paramythia; three busts of Venus. 
Case 85. Thirty-five small figures of Cupid, in various attitudes, 
running, holding a fillet or crown, the conch shell, and lecythus with 
w'hich he anoints Venus at the bath, holding the pugillares or love- 
letter, rejoicing, dancing, crying, intoxicated, feeding a rabbit or hare 
with grapes, and playing with a goose or sw 7 an ; the silver figure was 
found at Alexandria in Egypt; a dw 7 arf. 
Case 86. Various glass studs or buttons, combs, spoons, and other 
objects, principally from the sepulchres of Etruria ; pair of bronze 
sandals from Armentum. Various vases of glazed ware, in the shape 
of the head of a satyr, slaves holding jars, hedgehog and hippalektrvon. 
Case 87. Four fragments of the chasings which covered an ancient 
chariot, found at Perugia, representing an antefixal ornament, a warrior 
on horseback and another fallen ; lions devouring other animals ; the 
bronzes of Siris, which have formed that part of the armour w 7 hich 
covered the shoulders, of most exquisite Greek chased work, repre¬ 
senting tw r o combats of Greeks, supposed to be the Ajax Telamonius, j 
and Oileus and Amazons: part of ancient scabbard, on which is en¬ 
graved, in outline, Briseis led away from Achilles; another portion of 
