HALL OF THE CENTAURS.

1. Jupiter, in black marble. 2, 4. Cloud-born Centaurs, found at

Hadrian's Villa, the joint work of Aristeas and Papias, sculptors of

Aphrodisium, in bigio-morato marble. Pliny says he saw a Centaur that

had been embalmed in honey, which had been brought from Egypt to Rome

in the time of Claudius. 3. The infant Hercules, in green basalt,

found on the Aventine. 5. Æsculapius, in black marble. _On left of

entry._ 29. Hygeia. 31. Young Apollo. 33. Wounded Amazon. 34. Venus

and Mars, found in the Isola Sacra near Ostia. 36. Minerva. 6. Faun.

7. Apollo. 9. Trajan. 10. Augustus. Two columns of Porta Santa. 17.

Minerva, an archaic statue, B.C. 450. 21. A teacher imparting

instruction, found in Hadrian's Villa. 22. Præfica: a hired mourner at

funerals; a tear-bottle will be noticed in her hand. 28. Harpocrates,

found at Hadrian's Villa. 27. A hunter, by Polytimus.

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