CORRECTIONS, ALTERATIONS, AND DISCOVERIES TO SEPTEMBER 1889.

Page 9. Some of the columns of the Temple of Neptune have been

isolated.

Page 45. PLAN.--A is the Shrine of Janus. B, Inscription to

Constantinus II., 357 A.D. C, Pedestal to Statue of Constantine

(Eusebius, E. H., ix. 9, "Life of Constantine I.," 40 and 48). D,

Inscription to Arcadius, Honorius, and Theodosius.

Page 56, sixth line from bottom, _for_ at the same time _read_ in

1503.

Page 60, sixth line from bottom, _for_ S. Bonaventura _read_ the Ædem

Larum.

Page 72, line 19, _for_ inside _read_ outside.

Page 76, line 23, _for_ Scipio _read_ Regulus.

Page 77, sixth line from bottom, _for_ second _read_ third, 299-296.

Page 103. The Apollo Theatre is pulled down.

Page 118, line 21, _for_ Monsignor Macchi _read_ the Maggiordomo; also

at page 124, third line from bottom.

Page 121. VATICAN GALLERIES.--Second line, _for_ 3rd and 4th objects

_read_--3. S. Giovanni della Salle, founder of the Christian Brothers

Schools, by C. Manani, 1888. 4. Jesuits Martyred in Japan, by Peter

Gagliardi.

_Second Room._--No. 12, _read_ S. Grata of Bergamo, with the head of

her lover, S. Alexander of the Theban legion, by Peter Loverini, 1887.

Page 126. _Hall of Busts._--_For_ 280 _read_ 273, the young Augustus.

_For_ 282 _read_ 272, and _for_ 285 _read_ 292.

Page 127. _Cabinet of Masks._--_For_ 427 _read_ 425. _For_ 428 _read_

427. After Alcamenes, line 10, _read_ 436, Venus of Cnidos, by

Praxiteles. _For_ 436 _read_ 441. _Omit_ 441, Ganymedes, and _for_ 442

_read_ 443.

Page 129. _Chiaramonti Corridor._--_For_ 635 _read_ 636. _Omit_ 416,

Augustus as a Youth. _Insert_ 372_a_, A Fragment from the Parthenon, by

Phidias. _Omit_ 112, Venus of Cnidos. _For_ 484 _read_ 483, Cupid. 639

_read_ Sœmia.

Page 130. _Braccio Nuovo._--_For_ 92 _read_ 38B. _For_ 96A _read_ 97A.

_Insert_ 112, a fine bust of Juno as queen of heaven.

Page 136. Torlonia Museum closed to the public.

Page 140, line 19, _for_ by the new road _read_ Via Luciano Manara.

Page 147. BORGHESE GALLERY.--Permission necessary. To be obtained at

the palace, on the days the gallery is opened, before 1 P.M.

Page 160. KIRCHERIAN MUSEUM.--The objects have been arranged in cases

on the walls instead of down the centre of the rooms. _Third

Room._--_For_ at end on left _read_ in front of the window.

Page 175. CAPITOLINE MUSEUM.--36. _Omit_ whose bust it now supports;

_insert_ a porphyry fragment. 41. _For_ Antoninus Pius _read_

Claudius. 49, 50. _After_ Pius _read_ destroyed in 1665 by Alexander

VI.

Page 179. _Omit_ 23. Mercury.

Page 180. _Terra-cotta Room._--_Omit_ a large jar, _down to_ urn.

Page 181. _Omit_ the case, line 21, _down to_ Pia.

Page 183. _Courtyard._--_For_ 2 and 3 _read_ 4 and 6; _for_ 3 and 18

_read_ 5 and 7; _for_ 7 _read_ 9; _for_ 8 and 13 _read_ 18 and 10.

_Lower Corridor._--_For_ 3 _read_ 4; _for_ 5 _read_ 8; _for_ 7 _read_

18; _for_ 8 _read_ 21; _for_ 10 _read_ 23; _for_ 14 _read_ 35; _for_

15 _read_ 36; _for_ 16 _read_ 37; _for_ 17 _read_ 38; _for_ 18.

Porphyry _read_ 39. Original.

No. 3. A votive altar dedicated to the imperial house, on the left

side of which is a personification of the Via Appia reclining on a

wheel, similar to Trajan's Relief on the Arch of Constantine.

No. 6. Egyptian statuette, with the cartouch of Rameses II., found on

Via Nazionale. The base upon which it stands is inscribed to Fabius

Cilone, prefect of Rome under Septimius Severus, who had performed the

annual sacrifice to Hercules at the Ara Maxima, at the entrance to the

Circus Maximus. No. 13 is a companion inscription, a circular vase

offered by Catius Sabinus, prefect of Rome, who performed the annual

sacrifice at the great altar of Hercules. It was found at the back of

S. Maria in Cosmedin.

No. 17. Inscription to Hercules the leader of the Muses by the Consul

M. F. Nobilior, 189 B.C., from the temple which stood in the Portico

of Philip, now S. Ambrogio.

Nos. 2 and 3 in the courtyard are the two Egyptian lions from the

Temple of Isis, which in the sixteenth century were placed at the foot

of the ascent to the Capitol, and removed here in 1885.

Nos. 13 and 14. Two columns from the same temple found in 1883.

No. 32. Sphinx in red granite. 33. Vase in basalt, Villa Hadrian.

Altar sacred to Isis. On the left side is Harpocrates, the god of

silence; on the right, Anubis, the Egyptian Mercury. 34. Sphinx in

basalt, with the cartouch of Amasi II., 550 B.C. 44 and 51.

Monkey-gods of Pharaoh Nectanebus I., 370 B.C. 49. Crocodile in red

granite. With the exception of the vase, all these objects came from

the Temple of Isis and Serapis on the Campus Martius, founded, B.C.

100, by Apuleius II., and rebuilt by Domitian (Suetonius, "Dom." v.).

_Hall of Mosaics._--On right in entering, inscription to Nerva, by

Septimius Severus, A.D. 194, used in 1676 by the city Conservatori to

record their privileges.

8. Mosaic Head of an Athlete. 9. The Sea with fish, and a border of

foliage and birds, from the Baths of Olympia, Viminal Hill. 10. The

Rape of Proserpina (the names of the horses are written in Greek),

from a tomb on the Via Portuense. 12. Representation of a Bath, from

the Prætorian Camp. 14. Hercules conquered by Love. 18. A veiled woman

presenting a statuette to a seated nude figure, probably Mercury: a

beautiful work. 24. Personification of the Month of May. 27. An

Inundation of the Nile. 28. A Ship entering a Port. In the centre of

the room,

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