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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
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No. 17. A head of Minerva. It was purchased from Mr. Gavin 
Hamilton at Rome, in the vicinity of which city it was found. 
No. 18. A colossal head of Antinous in the character of Bacchus; 
it is crowned with a wreafh of ivy. This head, \vith several parts of 
the statue to w’hich it belonged, was found in 1770, in small pieces, 
made use of as stones in a wall, erected during the barbarous ages, in 
the grounds called La Tenuta della Tedesca, near the Villa Pamtile. 
No. 19. A shelf containing 
A head, apparently of a trumpeter. 
A head of Diana, the hair of which is drawn up from the sides, and 
tied in a knot at the top of the head. From the collection of Sir Wil¬ 
liam Hamilton. 
A head of a goat. 
Underneath, a small domestic fountain, of a square form, which was 
used for sacred purposes. 
No. 20. A bust of Minerva; the head only is antique. It was 
found in 1784, in the Villa Casali, amongst ruins supposed to have be¬ 
longed to the baths of Olympiodorus. The helmet and the bust, 
which are of bronze, are, with some variations, copied from an ancient 
bust of Minerva which was formerly in the Vatican, but is now at Paris. 
Placed upon 
An upright narrow piece of marble, ornamented with branches of the 
olive and the pine. 
In the Passage leading from Room XII. to the Grand Central 
Saloon are 
A gilt bronze statue of a female Indian deity, supposed to be Pattinee 
Dewa, found in the Island of Ceylon. Presented hy Sir Robert 
Hrownrigg, 1830. 
A Chinese gingal. Presented hy G. French Angas, Esq., 1841. 
Another with a detached chamber. Presented by Capt. JBelcher, 
R. N., 1842. 
Some Hindu bas-reliefs and sculpbures. 
An Arabic tombstone from Aden. Presented by Messrs. Newman, 
Hunts, and Christophers, 1840. 
A collection of figures in sandstone and calcareous stone, the work 
of the ancient inhabitants of Mexico. . Presented by Capt. Vetch, 
1842. 
The ape-headed Hindu deity Hanuman, standing in the attitude of 
prayer. 
Hindu female figure holding a tree. Presented by Mrs. Tucker 
1843. 
GRAND CENTRAL SALOON. 
GREEK AND ROMAN SCULPTURES. 
In the centre on a temporary framework are Greek marbles, re¬ 
moved from the ancient Xanthus, in Lycia. The upper bas-reliefs 
formed the fideze of a stele, and ai-e supposed to refer to the history of 
Pandarus, and to the carrying away of his daughters by the Harpies. 
Round the lower part are arranged some bas-reliefs collected from 
various parts of the ancient city, and representing a procession of cha¬ 
riots, horses, Ssc., and lion, deer, fowl, &c.; at one side still lower is a 
fragment of two lions, supposed to have been placed on the top of one 
