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1s not Castor, but a funeral monument 
similar to that engraved Archaeol. xiii. 
pl. xix. where we have a youth holding a 
horse, with likewise a hogged mane: 
similar figures occur on Roman funeral 
monuments. The Dioscuri are, in ge- 
neral at Jeast, naked, or with only a 
_chlamys floating from the shoulder; and 
the Above Grecian figure, and the Gau- 
lish Castor, is. draped. Lastly, figures 
leading horses, though tunicked, occur 
(exclusive of Gemini) in the marble 
Calendarium, engr. in Boissard iu. pl. 
140; but Pausanias mentions imitations 
of the Dioscuri by persons in tunicks. _ 
No. 7. Hercules securing the stag, 
which, at the command of Eurystheus, he 
had pursued a whole year m the forests 
of Arcadia. Notwithstanding Wincekel- 
mann’s elaborate defence of the work- 
manship of animals by the ancients, ‘this 
stag by no means conveys a favourable 
idea of it. 
stag, occurs upon the medallion of 
Prusa; but it should be remembered that 
a hind accompanies the Hercules of the 
Villa Borghesi, &c. in allusion to that 
which nursed Telephus, and not to the 
deer with golden horns and brazen feet. - 
No. 8. Blank. 
No. 9. A bas-relief, in three compart= 
ments. (1.) The infant Jupiter, riding on 
the Amalthean goat. (2.) A Triton, seiz- 
eng a bull by the horns. (8.) Two men 
carrying a hog to sacrifice. They carry 
him upon a pole, between their shoul. 
ders. Jupiter upon a goat is very com- 
mon upon coins, in flattery, as Mont- 
faucon observes, of the infant sons of the 
emperors, as appears by coins of Vale- 
rian the younger. A bull was the sym- 
bol of a nver, and that accounts for the 
interference of the marine deity by 
seizing his horns, The strange method 
by which the hog is carried, may allude 
to some conveyance of him, as he is 
slung and bound, from drowning. The 
goat is the known symbol of Jupiter the 
Preserver : and this bas-reliefis therefore 
probably votive, from some escape’ of 
drowning by inundation; the ‘Triton 
seizing the horns of the bull, that is, con- 
veying the water by the arms of the 
river, to the sea; and the hog being thus 
borne, in order to show the particular 
species of danger, and probably to be 
sacrificed afterwards. ; 
No. 10. A festoon of vine-branches, 
supported by the skulls of bulls. In the 
centre, above the festoon, is a mask of 
Bacchus. It has served as a decoration 
“én the inside of a circulur building, This 
Hercules catching the above 
s 
Remarks on the Townley Statues. [Oct. ty 
monument may serve to illustrate @ 
painting of Hefculanum, engraved in the ~ 
Archeological Library, i. 176. Garlands ° 
and festoons -hang-under the roof of a 
square building, which is presumed to he 
a Molus, Now this term is applied by 
Pausanias to. round temples, because of 
the arch, or vaulting. The festoons and 
mask of Bacchus, have festive allusions. 
No. 11. The Dioscuri on horsebucks © 
No. 12. A Bacchanalian groupe. ~ 
No. 13. Victory offering a libation, as 
before. | 
No. 14. Ornament of a building. 
No. 15. The Centaur Nessus currying 
off Dejanira. The lower part of the 
hind legs of the horse are bad and slen-. 
der. ‘The fore-legs and profile are very 
fine, This is not a common subject. 
The barbarous figure of the Centaur 
originated in Egypt; as appears by a mo- 
numentin the Barberini palace, and by 
another at Bologna. The Centaurs there 
have four horse’s feet, but the Greeks 
made the fore-feet human. (See Stosch - 
Cl. iii. n. 78.) We find four Centaurs 
with horse’s éars in Gori, ( Insers Birusc. 
ul. pl. 27); and the Etruscan vases of 
Hamilton. Ourvknowledge of the mar- 
bles of Centaurs is recent; for Montfau= - 
con gives none under the article; yet now 
they arenot uncommon. ape 
No. 16. A cow drinking out of va cir- 
cular vessel, whilst she suckles her calf. 
This representation occurs upon \the 
coins of Apollonia, and Dyrraechium, _ 
both in Illyria; where the subject is 
Egyptian, it implies Athor, the sacred 
cow, or the Venus of that country: but, — 
what certainty can be drawn from so ge- 
neral a representation? The Greek ar- 
‘tists were fond of such subjects; witness 
the cow of Myron, and calf of Menach= 
mus. See Plin. 34, 8. & 
No. 17. Two terminal heads joined 
back to back : one of the bearded Bacchus, 
the other of Libera. The heads of - Liber 
and Libera, that is, according ta some 
antiquaries, of the male and female Bac- 
chas, are seen upon the coins of the 
Cassica fainily: Varro, as.quoted by 
Augustine de Civ. Dei, 1. 6. ¢..9, gives 
the true explication of these umited 
heads, but it is of too indelicate a- kind 
to be mentioned. -Foucault, Maffei, Bo- — 
nanni, Canini, ‘and Montfaucon, have 
published similar. double heads of Bac-. 
'chus, or rather (to speak more properly) 
Liber and Libera. The beard here does © 
not'appear to relatesto the Indian Bac 
chus, but merely to denote the maie from. 
the female head, Bacchus and Anadne 
occur 
