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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[ROOM VI. 
No. 46. A small scenic figure, sitting on a square plinth. The face 
is covered with a comic mask. It was found, with many other pieces of 
sculpture, in the Villa Fonsega, on the Cselian Hill, in 1773. 
No. 47. A head of one of the Homeric heroes. It is highly ani¬ 
mated, and is looking upwards, apparently in great agitation. It was 
found, in 1771, by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, in that part of Hadrian’s villa 
now called the Pantanella. Pt. 2. PI. xxm. 
No. 48. A small statue of Jupiter sitting. He is represented in his 
twofold capacity, as king of the upper and lower regions. 
No. 49. A Greek funeral monument of Democles, the son of De~ 
modes, with a bas-relief and an inscription in eight elegiac verses. It 
was brought from Smyrna. Presented , in 1772, by Matthew Duane, 
Esq., and Thomas Tyrwhitt , Esq. 
No. 50. A votive filtar sacred to Bacchus. On the front, Silenus 
is represented riding on a panther. This altar was purchased at Rome 
from Piranesi, in 1771. 
Upon it is a votive statue of a fisherman, holding a basket of fish in 
his left hand. Purchased at Rome. 
No. 51. A bust of Caracalla; the head only is antique. It was 
found in 1776, in the Garden of the Nuns, at the Quattro Fontani, on 
the Esquiline Hill. 
No. 52. A group of two dogs, one of which is biting the ear of the 
other in play. Found in 1774, by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, at Monte 
Cagnuolo, within the precincts of the villa of Antoninus Pius. 
No. 53. A bust of the young Marcellus, erected to his memory by 
the Decemvirs, as is indicated by this inscription on the plinth: de¬ 
cemviri . stlitibvs . ivdicandis. Stlitibus is an archaism for litibus. 
Found in an excavation near Rome in 1776. 
No. 54. A bas-relief, representing Priam in the act of supplicating 
Achilles to deliver to him the body of his son Hector. 
Upon it, a head of a female child. The hair is divided into plaits, 
which are twisted into a knot on the back part of the head. Some of 
the red paint, with which the hair was originally coloured, is still vi¬ 
sible. 
No. 55. A bust of Gordianus Africanus the elder, dressed in the 
Roman toga. 
No. 56. A winged sphinx, which anciently formed part of the base 
of a superb candelabrum. It was found by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, in 
the ruins of the villa of Antoninus Pius, near the ancient Lanuvium. 
No. 57. The front of the cover of a magnificent sarcophagus. It 
represents a group of cattle, on one side of which is an old Faun, and 
on the other a young Faun, both recumbent. 
Upon it, two tiles in terracotta, brought from Athens; the fronts are 
painted. Purchased in 1815. 
Underneath, 
A fragment of a colossal toe. 
A fragment of a colossal foot. 
A votive foot, with a sandal. Round the foot a serpent is twined, 
with its head resting on the summit, which terminates a little above the 
ancle. 
An earthen vase, which has two handles at the neck and terminates 
in a point at the bottom, like an amphora. It was found in the baths 
