MERCURY OF THE BELVEDERE.

A most valuable piece of antique Greek sculpture, found near the Baths

of Titus in 1779. On the walls are bas-reliefs representing a combat

between Amazons and Athenians, and a sacred procession; 56, Priapus,

the god of orchards; 57, Hercules.

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