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serpent. These statues are excessively 
common, because votive, on account of 
convalescence, 
No. 58. A Warrior consulting the 
eracle of Apollo, 
No. 54. A lighted Candelabrum, on. 
each side of which is a Priestess, holding 
ap her robe, and carrying a patera on her’ 
' head. 
I have been unable to find any 
similar monument. 
No. 55. Theseus slaying a Centaur. 
A common subject. See Mus. Florent. 
lis pl. 39,0 a. A and Stosch, - repeat- 
edly. 
No. 56, 57, 58, 
23, 50. 
No. 59. Fauns treading out grapes in a 
vine-press. Presses occur upon the 
coins of Bostra, in Arabia, and_ the 
paintings of Herculanum: but as the 
Fauns here stand hand in hand, with the 
repetitions of 23, 
‘knee of the one against that of the 
other, I am inclined to think that they 
trod out the juice here. 
No. 60. A Chariot-race: In this bas- 
relief, we have the bands or thongs 
wound round the waist, as in the chari- 
oteers of Fabretti: it being usual to fasten 
‘the reins round the waist to leave the 
arms at liberty, though there has been 
some dispute about them. However, 
these thongs, sometimes passing upon 
‘the shoulders, well show the costume of 
charioteers. In C. Caylus and Maillot, 
pl. xciil. f. 6,7, are other specimens of 
this costume. 
No. 65. Captives in a car, chained, 
persons inlay the ends of the chains. 
See No. 
No 65. na head of Jupiter Ammon, 
resting on a flower. The ends of the 
Sillets “with which the head of Jupri ‘er is 
‘crowned, ure held on each side by a Faun, 
winged, the figure termina‘ing below in 
foliage, which curls in such a manner as 
to give the figure the appearance of a 
Triton. In Stosch, is a head of Serapis 
with the horas of Ammon, and also ano- 
ther head of Serapis with the attributes 
of Jupiter. Ammon, Apalle, Neptane, 
and Esculapius, (Gemm t. ii. pl. 30. 
p- 70.) Serepis and_ Isis, if occur 
together. Horas, seated upon the Lotus, 
occurs in ©. Caylis, Rec. ¢. i, ps 32, 
and Montfaucon, Suppl. t. i. pl. exc. 
Supposing then thai this figure is a Ju- 
piter Serapis, it Is necessa: '¥ to observe, 
that all figures of Jupiter Si rapis are of 
Jater aves, and neither of ancrent sculp- 
ture oF Exyptian work. This remark 
ee ie Macrobius, Saturn. t.1.c.7. 
Remarks upon the Townley Statues. ' 
Sorm of a butterfly tarhis breast. 
[July t, 
brought into Egypt, but by the Ptole- 
mies, and that the Egyptians did not in- - 
troduce his image into the temples. 
The Fauns have feathered wings, in a 
cartouche form. The Efruscans only 
allowed themselves to take liberties with 
the feet of Fauns, (Pierr. Grav. Pal. 
Roy.i. p.255. These bizar figures are 
very common, but are improperly deno- 
minated Fauns: 
monsters. They are numerous in Stosch; 
and it is remarkable that they chiefly 
lean. to imaginary marine animals, as 
here in the tail of a Triton. Count Cay= 
lus ascribes them ( Ree. 1i. pl. 90) to the 
caprice of the artist. 
No. 67. Fauns gathering grapes. 
No. 68. Vi ictory standing upon a 
plant, and supporting the branches with 
her hands. ‘Vhe figure is commanding 
_and fine, and there is muchexpression in 
the face. The drapery highly merits 
notice. The tree is probably a palm, 
but this is by no means certain. In 
Stosch, she stands upon two joined hands, 
pateeey which rises a wheat-ear. The 
tree in this bas-relief, is the symbol pro- 
the term should be 
bably of some country, which by her - 
holding the branches’ was to derive bee 
nefit from union with the conquerors. 
No. 69. Repetition of No. 33. 
No. 70. Victory sacrificing a bull, as 
before. 
No..71. A warrior riding at full speed, 
and cutting off the head of an Amazon, 
whom he has caught by the hair, Maffer 
has published a warrior pulling an Ama- 
zow from her horse by the hair of the 
head, the pelta lying on the ground, as a 
Roman soldier dismounting a Numidian 
horseman. It is more probably Theseus 
capturing Antiope, the Amazonian 
“queen: and this is perhaps the same 
‘subject. 
This seizure of Amazons on 
horseback by the hair, occurs on a vase 
belonging to the king of Naples, but re- 
cently brought to England. See the 
plate in the Magasin Encyclopedique, 
Now. 1809, p. ti, and the Collection de 
Vases peints, by Maissonneuve, t.2. pl. © 
25, 26, 27. It was probably usual. 
co 72. Venus borne through the air 
upon a Swan. ‘Tiis bird was conse- 
crated to Venus, and both ancient and 
modern poets mention their office of con- 
veving the mother of the Loves. Boc- 
cacio ( Geneal. Deor.) is very indelicate 
upon the subject. It is not however a 
common representation of Venus. 
~ No. 73. Cupid pressing Psyche in the - 
Psyche, 
pe Li 9,) who says that Serapis was not in the form of a butterfly, with Cupid 
1, fastened 
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