Built by Pius VII., in 1817, from the designs of Stern. The floor is
composed of ancient mosaics, and is worthy of notice. The chief
objects of interest are--5, Caryatide, supposed to be one of those
which supported the portico of the Pandrosium at Athens, by Phidias;
8, Commodus; 9, Captive Dacian King; 11, Silenus; 14, Augustus, found
in 1863 in the ruins of the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta; 17,
Æsculapius; 20, Nerva; 23, Pudicitia, the goddess of modesty; 26,
Titus; 92, Ganymedes, the cup-bearer of Jupiter; 44, Wounded Amazon;
47, Caryatide; 50, Diana; 53, Euripides; 56, Julia, daughter of Titus;
59, Plenty; 62, Demosthenes; 67, Athlete in the act of cleaning his
arm with a strigil--the die, which he holds in his other hand, is an
erroneous modern addition; 71, Amazon; 74, Clemency; 77, Antonia, the
wife of Drusus the elder; 80, Plotina, wife of Trajan; 83, Ceres; 86,
Fortune; 96, A. Marcus Antonius; 109, The Nile--the sixteen children
are allegorical of the sixteen cubits at which the rise of the river
begins to irrigate the land--one of the finest works of art in the
Vatican, found near the Church of Minerva; 111, Julia, daughter of
Titus; 114, Minerva; 117, Claudius; 120, Faun; 123, Lucius Verus; 126,
Athlete; 129, Domitian; 132, Mercury. _Passing through the iron gates,
we enter_