1811*'] Mi\ Foshrookc s Eemarks on the To%'nley Statues, 7 
her bosom. In Beger and La Chausse 
are females holding hutteifljes: all re¬ 
ferable to the same fiction of Psyche. 
The word Psi/che signifies either fire 
soul or a butterfly, which the ancients 
made the symbol of the former, and it 
has this allusion in numerous funeral 
monuments. In some of the above- 
mentioned instances it seems to be placed 
in the hand of a female, merely as a dis¬ 
tinctive attribute of Psyche : but in fune¬ 
ral monuments the meaning may be only 
allegorical. 
No. 63 to 67 are hands and fragments. 
No. 68. A left foot covered apparently 
rcith ImeUf round zvhich bandages are 
fastened. Mongez says {Pne, des Antiq. 
V. Bandages)^ the ancients possessed tlie 
knowledge of bandages the most proper 
for every case, to such a degree of per¬ 
fection, that the mode rns cannot flatter 
themselves on having added much to the 
excellent treatise of Galen upon the 
subject. It was the custom, as is well 
known, of putting in the temples the 
figures of the limbsof which they thought 
the cure was effected by the favour of 
the gods, a custom which obtained to 
the middle ages. Ex-Votos, of some kinds 
at least, are often very badly formed and 
wrought, being sold, says Count Caylus 
{Rec. ii. 92), at a very low price, to 
country people, probably in the markets, 
for offerings as wanted. A foot wnh a 
huge unnatural instep, hke that of a 
Chinese w'omaii, is engraven from Fou- 
cault by Rlontfaucon (li. p. 1. b. 9.c. 4). 
Another from Peiresc is just as b.adly 
formed : perhaps, however, they were 
miended to pourtray swelled feet. 
- No. 69. A large votive patera^ zeith 
a bas relief on each side, one representing 
Silenus azid the other a Satyr- f.a Cliausse,- 
Fabretti, and Montfaneon have given 
some very magnificent paterse, vvitii 
basso relievos of various patienrs. 
No. 70. A small Fragment of a Figure 
holding a bird. Upon a coiiv of Nero, 
fc-ruck at Laodicea, .Jupiter Pliilalerhes 
nolds an eagle(A'icaise); Neptune m Maf- 
'fei,Fontanin:, Beger, &g. holds a dolphin. 
This shows that the custom refers some¬ 
times to attributes. In Beger, Boisot, 
and others, V'enus holds a dove. E'ermty, 
in the coins of Faustina' and Cusiitus, 
b -Ids a phoenix. Upon a reverse of 
' Llagahains, Faith hords a turtle-dove, a 
symbol of her, on account of that bird’s 
conjugal fidelity. Upon funeral marbles 
women and boys sometimes hold birds, 
i, €. domestic ones for pleasure. It is 
not easy, therefore, to say, who or what 
was this figure. 
No. 72. A torso of a male figure, the 
arms of zvhich appear to have been raised 
above the head. One arm raised to the 
liead, in token of effeminacy, occurs in 
Hermaphroditus, Bacchus, and Sleep. 
Bacchus has often one arm elevated ; so 
has Hymen with his torch. A Silenus in 
Boigot raises both his arms; but it would 
be rash to identify this marble from such 
a circumstance as merely elevated arms. 
No. 73. A small mutilated figure. 
The right breast is naked ; the other parts 
a7'e entirely covered with drapery. It 
has a Jiecklace, from zvhich a scarabzsus is 
suspended. The scarabsei w ere worn as 
amulets against all kinds of misfortunes. 
See C. Caylus, &c. * 
No. 74. A head of an Eagle, zvhich 
appears to have served as the hilt of a 
szcord- In the Monumenii Anlichi of 
Winckelmann is such' a hilt of a sword. 
The hilt of the sword of Tliyamis, des* 
cribed in the Ethiofiics of Ileliodorus 
(Z. 2. C.4) w'as also an eagle’s beak. 
It is considered as a Greek fashion. 
IMontfaucon has published a poniard with 
a similar hilt. 
No. 75. A votive Patera, with has 
reliefs. 
No. 76. A fragment of aSez'pent. 
No. 77. Ahead of Apollo, 
No. 78. A Mercury sleeping upon a 
rock. C. Caylus (iii. n. 1. pi. 43) says^ 
tliat Mercury from his different employs 
is rarely represented prostrate. Upon 
an amethyst, in Storch, he is seated uuoi* 
a rock. ‘This rock, says Winckelmann, 
is apparently intended fora promontory, 
hecaHse he presided over navigatio.n. 
We may also conceive that Mercury 
ETT uTtnot;, i. e. upon the edge of the sea, 
wlio was worshipped under that apfiel- 
iatinn by the Samians, is tiie Mercury 
here represented. In Beger and a coin 
of Tiberius he is also sealed upon a rock, 
but in a sleeping attitude : his figure, as 
noted by C. Caylus, is exceedingly rare ; 
^no small addition to the value of this 
statue.' 
No. 79. A head of Diana. 
No. 80. Read of a Lion, part of a. 
Sarcophagtis. 
No. 81. A Cistern of Green Basalt, 
anciently used as a bath. On the sides 
are carved txvo rings in imitation of 
■handles, m the centre of which is a leaf 
* Remarks liave been given before upon 
of 
