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No. 200. ] JULY 1s 1840. [7 of Vou. 29, 
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For the Monthly Magazine. . Grifin, who guards the gold mines of 
REMARKS upon the TOWNEEY STATUES, Scythia. This Arimaspus has two eyes, 
in the sei1IsH MUseEUM.. By the and_ his buckler resembles the pelta of 
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Red. THOMAS DUDLEY FosBRoOKE, the Amazons. The Griffins were famed _ 
MA. Feds” r for a-particular instinct in finding gold, 
(The First Room.) .- and being very tenacious of it, where- 
HE Townley collection of statues, ‘fore they were perpetually attacked by 
deposited in the British Museum, the Arimaspi, a people, who, from ‘use 
is a truly attractive object.. It does of archery, used to shut one eye fora | 
honour to the taste of the nation, that -better aim, and were therefore repre= i 
it is so much visited ; but it would con- sented as having only one eye. (Turpin.) F 
siderably augiment the instruction, if a The Amazons, Arimaspi, and Grithins, fy 
separate Catalogue, with ample scien- appear to have been only. barbarous i 
“tific details, were sold-at the door. The nations mythologized. See Plin, vii. 2. i 
general Catalogue of the contents of the Mela, Strabo, &c. i 
Museum, does not nor can instruct the No. 5. The head of a Triton, on each i 
spectator, I shall proceed through the side of which is a Cupid riding upon 
collection serzatim. ~~~ ‘ » _@ Dolphin. The general distinction of 
No. 1, is «@ female Statue of one of the “Yritons 1s a row of .scales across the 
Muses. She is fully draped; for the visage. See Winckelm. Monum. Antich. i 
Muses are always clothed with such m. 85. Count Caylus (Rec..5.) has i 
decency, as never to have the bosom published a singular lamp of the head { 
naked, This is their distinction from of a Triton, on the top of which are two Ih 
nymphs, who have the breast half. - Dolphins, The beard of ourspecimen Fi 
naked. This: Muse, from the amiculwm applies to that of a Triton, or some Mi 
over her shoulder, and the absence uf marine deity in the Mus. Ectrus. t. i, Hit 
the known characteristics of vuther pl. 75. n. 2. and is thought, from its Hf 
Muses, is probably Erato or Cho, whose singular form, to mean fins. (See Phifo. ih 
costumes are sintilar. See Gori, Inscr. ‘stratus ti. icon. 15.) Gravelle (Pierr, . a 
Etrus, t. iit. pl. 33. - . Grad, t.ii. pl. 36.) doubts the antiquity i 
No. 2, is an Amphora. This-is the of agem, from two Loves accompanying i 
distinctive term of vases for containing a Nereid, butitiscommon. See Bartol, 
wines, oils, &c. &c, They have two <Admir. pil. 32.. The Dolphin is the : 
handles, and are pointed at the bottom, model of tht first fabrication of ships: Hil 
for fixing in the ground. These (for “and in Stosch, is a vessel in form. of one. 
No. 77, is similar) are not extraordinary, Love presided over the air, earth, and ‘ 
the curious and valuable being those of sea, (Urph. Hymn. in. Amor ;) and the } 
enormous size, such “as C, Caylus has Greek expression eparomAoey, and Qvid’s 
piven, Rec. iv. pl 58. ; ~~~ “Sea of Love, may further explain this bass Ait 
No, 3. A terminal head of the beard-_ relief... Pausanias, in his Beotics, 'c. 21. it 
ed Bacchus. Bacchus bearded and old, alludes to these carious beards or fins iP 
is the Iudian Bacchus, : Ps aR gE Re ray | | 
No. 4. 7. The first is a bas-relicf, | No. 6. Bacehus ond Cupid, &c. Ta ui 
representing & combat between two Ama-' Beger, we have Bacchus giving a torch to oH 
zons and (wo Griffins. The latter, An Cupid. Sine Cerere et Baccho friget if! 
envagement between one of the Arimaspi Vents. att, 4 "agi Aha | 
und a Griffin. Upon ‘a cornelian in No.7. 8.. Arimaspi and Griffins, as ii 
Stosch, is an Arimaspus ‘combating 8 before. There is:amwarmed bust ip both fi 
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