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the other a sacrificing knife, and crown. Found at Corbridge, 
Northumberland. Presented by the Duke of Northumberland , in 
1774. 
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. 
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 Mon- 
talto. Pt. 2. PI. 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 w 7 as found among some 
ruins at Baiae, 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 unknowm female, commonly called that of 
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