L. 26. The infant Hercules strangling a serpent. L. 28. Grand Sarcophagus--the Rape of Proserpine. R. 33. Satyr playing on a flute. (In the wall on the left inscriptions from the columbarium of Livia.) R. 43. Head of Ariadne. L. 48. Sarcophagus--the birth and childhood of Bacchus. L. 56. Statue, draped. R. 64. Jupiter, on a cippus with a curious relief of Claudia drawing the boat with the image of the Magna Mater up the Tiber. L. 69. Bust of Caligula. R. 70. Marcus Aurelius, as a boy--a very beautiful bust. R. 70. Statue of Minerva from Velletri. The same as that in the Braccio Nuovo of the Vatican. R. 72. Trajan. 76. In the window, a magnificent vase, found near the tomb of Cecilia Metella, standing on a puteal adorned with reliefs of the twelve principal gods and goddesses. From the right of this corridor open two chambers. The first is named the _Room of the Doves_, from the famous mosaic found in the ruins of Hadrian's villa near Tivoli, and generally called _Pliny's Doves_, because Pliny, when speaking of the perfection to which the mosaic art had attained, describes a wonderful mosaic of Sosus of Pergamos, in which one dove is seen drinking and casting her shadow on the water, while others are pluming themselves on the edge of the vase. As a pendant to this is another _Mosaic, of a Tragic and Comic Mask_. In the farther window is the _Iliac Tablet_, an interesting relief in the soft marble called palombino, relating to the story of the destruction of Troy, and the flight of Æneas, and found at Bovillæ. "L'ensemble de la guerre contre Troie est contenu dans un abrégé figuré qu'on appelle la Table Iliaque, petit bas-relief destiné à offrir un résumé visible de cette guerre aux jeunes Romains, et à servir dans les écoles soit pour l'_Iliade_, soit pour les poëmes cycliques comme d'un _Index parlant_. "La Table Iliaque est un ouvrage romain fait à Rome. Tout ce qui touche aux origines troyennes de cette ville, inconnues à Homère et célébrées surtout par Stésichore avant de l'être par Virgile, tient dans ce bas-relief une place importante et domine dans sa composition."--_Ampère, Hist. Rom._ iii. 431. In the centre of the room is a pretty statuette of a girl shielding a dove. The second chamber, known as _The Reserved Cabinet_, contains the famous _Venus of the Capitol_--a Greek statue, found immured in a wall upon the Quirinal.