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GALLERY OP ANTIQUITIES. [^ROOM VI. 
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 visible. 
No. 55. "A bust of Gordianus Africanus the elder, 
dressed in the Roman toga. 
No. 56. A sphinx, which anciently formed part of the 
base of a superb candelabrum. 
No. 57. The front of the cover of a magnificent sar¬ 
cophagus. 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 ter¬ 
minates 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 of Titus, with above seventy 
others of the same sort; all of them contained the fine 
African sand with which, when mixed with oil, the 
Athletae rubbed their bodies before they exercised. 
A votive foot covered with a sandal, and having a ser¬ 
pent twined round it as in the one before described. 
A colossal hand. 
A mask of Bacchus. 
No. 58. A head of Sabina. 
No. 59. A sepulchral cippus, with an inscription to 
M. Coelius Superstes. 
Upon it, an Egyptian tumbler, practising his art on 
the back of a tame crocodile.. 
No. 60. A small statue of a muse, sitting on a rock, 
holding a lyre in her left hand ; the plinth is inscribed 
EYMOTZIA. 
No. 61. An unknown bust of a middle-aged man. 
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. On the plinth 
