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of Titus, with above seventy others of the same sort; all of them con¬ 
tained the fine African sand with which, when mixed with oil, the 
Athletm rubbed their bodies before they exercised. 
A votive foot covered with a sandal, and having a serpent twined 
round it as in the one before described. 
A colossal hand. 
A mask of Bacchus ; the pupils of the eyes perforated. 
No. 58. A bust of Julia Sabina, daughter of Matidia, whose mother 
was Marciana, the sister of Trajan. 
No. 59. A square sepulchral cippus, with an inscription to M. Coe- 
lius Superstes. 
Upon it, an Egyptian tumbler, practising his art on the back of a 
tame crocodile. This sculpture was brought from Rome by the first 
Lord Cawdor. 
No. 60. A small statue of a muse, sitting on a rock, holding a lyre 
in her left hand; the plinth is inscribed ETMOT2IA. 
No. 61. An unknown bust of a middle-aged man : round the base 
on which the bust rests is an inscription signifying that L. TEmilius For- 
tunatus dedicates this bust to his friend. The hair of the head and beard 
is short and bushy; the left shoulder is covered with part of the chlamys; 
the right shoulder and breast are uncovered. 
No. 62. A small statue of Hercules sitting on a rock, with a 
club in his left hand and the apples of the Hesperides in his right 
hand. 
No. 63. A Greek sepulchral monument, with a bas-relief, and an 
inscription to Exacestes and Metra his wife. 
No. 64. The front of a votive altar, with an inscription for the safe 
return of Septimius Severus and his family from some expedition. 
The parts in the inscription which are erased contained the name of 
Geta, which, by a severe edict of Caracalla, was ordered to be erased 
from every inscription throughout the Roman empire. 
Upon it, is a small statue of a Muse, sitting on a rock and playing 
on a lyre. 
No. 65. A head of Domitia, formerly called Messalina, the fifth 
wife of the Emperor Claudius. It was found in the Villa Casali, upon 
the Esquiline Hill, in 1775. 
No. 66. A statue three feet ten inches high, ending -from the waist 
downwards in a terminus. In the right hand is a bunch of grapes, at 
which a bird, held under the left arm, is pecking. It was found in 
1774, on some swampy ground near the lake of Nemi. 
No. 67. A votive altar, with a dedicatory inscription to Bona Dea 
Annianensis. 
No. 68. A head of Jupiter Serapis. It bears a modius. The 
paint with w 7 hich the face was originally coloured is still discernible. 
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A stone sarcophagus. In it were two glass vessels, each containing 
burnt bones, and much liquid; between them, two pair of shoes of 
