ROOM II.] GREEK AND ROMAN SCULPTURES. 93 
Reclining female figure, apparently Ariadne restored, as a water 
nymph. 
An eagle. 
Underneath, a bas-relief, sacrifice to Aesculapius and Hygieia. A 
horse’s head is seen through a window at one corner. 
In front an Egyptian or Nubian tumbler practising his art upon 
a tame crocodile. From Rome. Pt. 10. PI. xxvn. 
In the pedestal, a fragment of a testamentary inscription, sawn from 
the front of a sarcophagus. Found in 1776 in the Villa Pelluchi, near 
the Pincian Gate at Rome . 
A Comic Actor, his face covered by a mask. Found in 1773, in 
the Villa Fonsega , Rome. 
In the pedestal; sepulchral inscription to Dasumia Soterio. Found 
in the Villa Pelluchi , Rome. 
A statue of Pan, standing, holding a pedum in his left hand. 
Under it an altar, dedicated by C. Tullius Hesper, and his wife, 
Tullia Restituta, to the Bona Dea of the river Anio ; and a sepulchral 
cippus, erected to Marcus Ccelius Superstes by his brother C. Coelius 
Secundus; on it is Leda and the Swan. Pt. 10. PI. lv. fig. 2. 
Bust of Pericles. Found in 1781, near Tivoli , below the front of 
a pilaster, ornamented with myrtle, olive, and vine branches. 
ROOM II. 
This Room, which is intended hereafter to be reserved exclusively 
for Roman Antiquities, contains at present miscellaneous sculptures, 
chiefly from the Towneley collection. They are arranged as follows, 
commencing from the left on entering: — 
No. 21. A terminal head of Mercury. Purchased in 1812, at the 
sale of Antiquities belonging to William Chinnery, Esq. Pt. 2. 
PI. XXI. 
Statue of the Emperor Hadrian, clad in the paludamentum. Found 
on the site of Hadrian’s Villa, at Tivoli. 
No. 26. A bust of Sophocles. Found about the year 1775, near 
Gensano, seventeen miles from Rome. Pt. 2. PI. xxvi. 
No. 10*. Colossal head of Marcus Aurelius, in the character of one 
of the Fratres Arvales. Formerly in the Mattei collection. 
A statue of Venus preparing for the bath, of white marble, an an¬ 
cient copy of a statue, of which the Venus in the museum of the 
Capitol at Rome is also a copy. 
No. 44. An unknown terminal head, probably of a Greek poet. 
It was found with the head of Hippocrates, No. 20, near Albano, in 
1770. Pt. 2. PI. xliv. 
No. 51. Statue of a youth in Phrygian attire, wearing a cidaris or 
conical cap on his head, and a tunic, anaxyrides , chlamys , and shoes; 
it has been restored as Paris, holding the apple and shepherd’s crook, 
but it is more probably Atys or one of the attendants of the god Mithras. 
Found in 1785, on the banks of the Tiber, at a distance of about five 
miles from the Porta Portese, and supposed to have been intended to 
ornament a villa. 
Underneath, a Greek inscription. 
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