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group of figures offering up sacrifices to him. Above are Apollo and 
the Nine Muses; and on the summit of the mountain is Jupiter, who 
appears to be giving his sanction to the divine honours which are paid 
to Homer. This highly interesting bas-relief was found about the 
middle of the 17th century, at Frattochi, the ancient Bo villas, on the 
Appian road, ten miles from Rome. It was for many years in the 
Colonna Palace, at Rome, and was purchased for the British Museum 
in the year 1819, at the expense of £1000. 
Nos. 21*. 22*. Two feet covered with sandals. They have be¬ 
longed to the same statue, and are in beautiful preservation. 
No. 23*. A bas-relief, representing a comic and tragic mask. 
No. 24*. Ditto, representing four Bacchic masks. Purchased in 
1818. 
No. 25*. A tragic mask. 
No. 24. A statue of Pan: formerly preserved in the Macaroni 
Palace at Rome. Pt. 2. PI. xxiv. 
No. 25. A terminal head of Homer, represented in an advanced 
age, with a sublime and dignified character : it was found among some 
ruins at Baise, in 1780. Pt. 2. PI. xxv. 
No. 26. A bust of Sophocles: found about the year 1775, near 
Gensano, seventeen miles from Rome. Pt. 2. PL xxvi. 
No. 27. A terminal head of the bearded Bacchus : formerly in the 
collection of Cardinal Alexander Albani, at Rome. It was brought to 
England by Mr. Lyde Browne. Pt. 2. PI. xxvir. 
No. 28. A statue of a nymph of Diana resting herself after the fa¬ 
tigues of the chase: found in 1766, near the Salarian gate of Rome r 
in the Villa Verospi, supposed to have been the site of the gardens of 
Sallust. Pt. 2. PI. xxvm. 
No. 29. An entire terminus of the bearded Bacchus, six feet high : 
found in 1771, at Baise, in digging a trench for the removal of an old 
vineyard. Pt. 2. PI. xxix. 
No. 30. A terminal head of the bearded Bacchus: found with the 
preceding bust at Baise, in 1771. Pt. 2. PI. xxx. 
No. 31. A statue of a youth holding with both hands a part of an 
arm which he is biting. This statue belonged to a group, originally 
composed of two boys who had quarrelled at the game of tali, as ap¬ 
pears by one of those bones called tali remaining in the hand of the 
figure which is lost. It was found in the baths of Titus at Rome, 
during the pontificate of Urban VIII. Mr. Townley obtained it from 
the Barberini Palace, in 1768. Pt. 2. PI. xxxi. 
No. 32. A terminal head of Pericles, helmeted, and inscribed with 
his name. It was found in 1781, about a mile from Tivoli, in the Pia- 
nella del Cassio. Pt. 2. PI. xxxn. 
No. 33. A statue of a Satyr; the trunk of the tree which supports 
the figure is inscribed with the name of the artist, M. Cossutius Cerdo. 
This statue, with its repetition, No. 43, was found by Mr. Gavin Hamil¬ 
ton in the year 1775, near Civita Lavinia, (the ancient Lanuvium,) in 
the ruins of the villa of Antoninus Pius. Pt. 2. PI. xxxm. 
No. 34. A terminal head of Epicurus. It was found at Rome in 
the Villa Casali, near the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, in 1775. 
Pt. 2. PI. xxxiv. 
No. 35. A terminal statue of Pan playing upon a pipe : found by 
