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Excerpt from Collection of the Most Remarkable Monuments of the National Museum, Vol. 2
1. Statue of a drunken Faun, from Herculanum. 2. Statue of Mercury at rest, from Herculaneum. 3. Statue of Apollo in the act of sthrowing an arrow from Pompei. 4. Statue of Camillus or a minister of altar, from Pompei. 5. Two statues of young dancers, from Herculaneum. 6. Two statues of young discoboli from Pompei. 7. Statue of Faun sitting in the attitude of sleep, from Herculaneum. 8. Statue of a Narcise, from Pompei. 9. Another statue of Faun in the act of dancing, from Pompei. 10. Statue of a Silenus from Pompei. 11. Another small statue of Hercules from Pompei. 12. Statue of young Hercules in the act of strangling serpents, from the Farnese Museum. 13. Posterior part of the same statue. 14. Two statuettes on harseback the one of Alexander the Great, and the other of an Amazon, from Pompei. Two other statuettes, the one of a fisherman, and the other of a boy, from Pompei. 16. Two other statuettes of two young emperors from Pompei. 17. Two other statuettes, the one of Venus found at Nocera, and the other of Fortune from Pompei. Two other statuettes of Fauns sitting, from Pompei. 19. Three other statuettes of boys rising, from Pompei. Twb small statuettes the one of Jupiter, and the other of Juno, from om per. 21. Two other like statues the one of Bacchus, and the other of a Baccant, from Pompei. Two busts the one of Seneca and the other of Ptolomeus from Herculaneum.
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