94 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [BOOM II. 
Terminal bust of Epicurus. It was found at Rome, in the Villa 
Casati, near the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, in 1775. 
A Mithraic group: a youth wearing the cidaris , draped in a tunic 
and anaxyrides, stabbing the Mithraic bull, which is surrounded by the 
dog, serpent, and scorpion; the whole generally supposed to be of astro¬ 
nomical import. 
Underneath, three bas-reliefs: one, a sepulchral tablet, on which a 
skeleton is represented. 
No. 42. . A terminal head of Periander, formerly in the Villa Mont- 
alto. Pt. 2. PL xlii. 
No. 43. A statue of Isis, apparently in the character of Ceres; for¬ 
merly in the Macerani Palace at Rome. 
No. 25. A terminal head of Homer, represented in an advanced 
age, of a sublime and dignified character: it was found among some 
ruins at Baise, in 1780. Pt. 2. Pi. xxv. 
No. 8. A statue of Venus or Dione, naked to the waist, and covered 
with drapery thence downwards. It was found in the ruins of the Mari¬ 
time Baths of Claudius, at Ostia, in the year 1776. Pt. 1. PI. vm. 
No. 47. Bust of an unknown female, commonly called that of 
Clytie. It is gracefully terminated by the flower of the Nymphsea 
lotus, on which it appears to rest. Purchased at Naples in 1772. 
No. 49. Leg or support of an ancient tripod table, having the 
shape of the head and leg of a panther rising out of foliage. 
No. 6. Bas-relief, in the flat early style of Greek sculpture. It 
represents Castor managing a horse. Found in the ruins of Hadrian’s 
Villa, about the year 1769. Pt. 2. PI. vi. 
A bas-relief, representing Bacchus received as a guest by Icarus. 
The base of an ancient fountain. 
No. 48. Bust, supposed to be that of one of the Homeric heroes. 
No. 50. Leg or support of an ancient tripod table, having the 
shape of the head and foot of a lion or panther, in red porphyry. 
Found a.d. 1772, at a depth of twenty-five feet, in the Forum, under 
the Palatine Hill. 
No. 4*. Colossal bust of Lucius Verus, clad in the paludamentum. 
Formerly in the Mattei collection. 
Statue of an Emperor, apparently Caracalla. From Alexandria. 
Presented by King George III. 
No. 15. A bust of Hadrian, with the breast naked. Formerly in 
the Villa Montalto. 
A bust of Jupiter Serapis. Presented by J. T. Barber Beaumont , 
Esq., 1836. 
A bust of Trajan, with the bre ,st naked. Found in an excavation 
made in the Campagna di Roma, a.d. 1776. 
Statue of Marcus Aurelius, wearing the toga. 
Bust of Charles Towneley, Esq. 
Bust of Antinous, in the character of Bacchus. 
Statue of a sleeping youth, wearing a petasus , and di aped in a chla~ 
mys , shod with endromides ; supposed to be Mercury, but more probably 
Endymion. 
Statue, restored as of a drunken Satyr or Silenus, but which is sup¬ 
posed to have formed part of a group of a Silenus and Nymph. 
