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the British Museum., in 1780, hij the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, 
and the Hon. A. C. Fraser. Pt. SJ. PL xli. 
No. 42. A terminal head of Periander: formerly in the Villa 
Montalto. Pt. 2. PI. xlii. 
No. 43. A repetition of No. 33. Pt. 2. PI. xidii. 
No. 44. An unknown terminal head, probably of a Greek poet. It 
was found with the head of Hippocrates, No. 20, near Albano, in 1770. 
Pt. 2. PI. XLIV. 
No. 45. A statue of Actaeon attacked by his dogs. It w^as found 
by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, in 1774, in the ruins of the villa of Antoninus 
Pius, near Civita Lavinia. Pt. 2. PI. XLV. 
No. 46. A terminal head of the young Hercules; it is crowned with 
the leaves of thepopls^r. This head was found in the year 1777, near 
Gensano, in the grounds belonging to the Cesarini family. Pt. 2. 
PI. XLVI. 
BAS-RELIEFS, 
No. 1. A bas-relief, representing an old Faun struggling with a 
nymph. Pt. 2. PL i. 
No. 2. Ditto, representing a candelabrum, formerly in the collec¬ 
tion of the Mattei family. Pt. 2. PL ii. 
No. 3. Ditto, representing a funeral column, near which is a statue 
of the god of Lampsacus. Pt. 2. PL iii. 
No. 4. Ditto, representing Bacchus received as a guest by Icarus. 
Pt. 2. PL IV. 
No. 5. Ditto, representing warriors consulting the oracle of Apollo. 
It was presented to Mr. Townley by the Duke of Bedford in 1805. 
Pt. 2. PL V. 
No. 6. Ditto, in the flat early style of Grecian sculpture. It repre¬ 
sents Castor managing a horse. Found in the ruins of Hadrian’s Villa, 
about the year 1769. Pt. 2. PL vi. 
No. 7. Ditto, representing Hercules securing the Msenalian stag, 
which, at the command of Eurystheus, he had pursued a whole year 
in the forest of Arcadia. It is in a very early style. Pt. 2. PL vii. 
No. 8. Blank. 
No. 9. A bas-relief, divided into three compartments. In the 
upper division, the infant Bacchus is represented riding on a goat; in 
the middle, a Triton, in attendance on Venus, is seizing a marine bull 
by the horns ; and in the lower division is a company of hunters return¬ 
ing home with their spoil. It belonged to Pope Sixtus V., and was 
formerly in the Villa Montalto. Pt. 2. PL ix. 
No. 10. Ditto, representing a festoon of vine branches suspended 
from the skulls of bulls. In the centre, above the festoon, is a mask of 
a Faun. It has served as a decoration in the inside of a circular build¬ 
ing, probably dedicated to Bacchus. Pt. 2. PL x. 
No. 11. Ditto, representing the Dioscuri on horseback. From the 
collection of Sir William Hamilton. Pt. 2. PL xi. 
No. 12. Ditto, representing a Bacchanalian group, consisting of 
three figures ; the first a Bacchante playing on the tambourin ; the se¬ 
cond, a Faun playing on the double pipe ; and the third, an intoxicated 
Faun holding a thyrsus. It wrs found by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, in 
1776; at Civita Vecchia, about five miles from Rome. Pt. 2. PL xii. 
