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FIRST ROOM.--1. Square altar representing the labours of Hercules;
also busts of no importance.
SECOND ROOM.--3, 4, 6, 11. Monumental cippi, with working tools in
bas-relief; likewise the same emblems on 10, fragment of a column. 6.
Inscription to Marcus Æbutius. 4. Lapis Capponianus. 3. Cossutius. 11.
T. Statilius Aper, and to his wife Orcivia Antides; found on the
Janiculum. He was a surveyor; the verse stating that he died at the
age of twenty-two years, eight months, and fifteen days.
5. Sarcophagus found on the Via Appia, representing a fight between
Roman and Gallic cavalry, when, in 223 B.C., Marcus Marcellus killed
Virdomarus, the chief of the Insubrian Gauls, and so carried off the
third Spolia Opima (Livy, "Ep." xx.; Florus, ii. 4; Eutropius, iii. 6;
Plutarch, in "Marcellus"). The central figure is strikingly like the
figure of the wounded Gaul miscalled the dying gladiator.
12. Inscription to Vettius Agorius Prætextatus, prefect 367, and his
wife, Paolina. 14. Bust of Crispina, wife of Commodus. 13. Inscription
from villa of Herodes Atticus, Via Appia, used afterwards as a
milestone under Maxentius.
2. Monument to Bathyllus, an actor of the time of Augustus, afterwards
custodian of the Temple of the Deified Augustus.
THIRD ROOM.--1. Sarcophagus found in a mound on the road to Frascati,
called Monte del Grano. Inside the sarcophagus was found the Portland
vase now in the British Museum, which contained the ashes. The
sarcophagus is surmounted by the figures of a man and woman in repose.
The reliefs illustrate the life of Achilles. 2. Relief of Priests of
Cybele. 6. Cosimati mosaic, with reliefs from life of Achilles. 12,
13. Portraits in relief of Nero and Poppæa. 15. Pluto and Cerberus,
found in the Baths of Titus, 1812.