UFFIZI GALLERY.
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No. 24, Bacchus and Omphale ; excellent style, executed
on a fine stone.
Case II., No. 33, a female figure seated near a temple, with
an image on her left arm, and surrounded by three other
figures. The work is fine, but the subject difficult to explain.
It may possibly refer to the story of Iphigenia in Taurus, when¬
she recognises her brothers.
No. 34, a male figure suspending a sword on a column ;
in excellent style and finely executed.
No. 40, a fragment restored in gold by Benvenuto
Cellini.
No. 66, the bust of Omphale ; her head covered with the
lion’s skin of Hercules.
There are several heads of Medusa, and portraits.
Case III., No. 85, Mithridates VI., King of Pontus; and
several likenesses of Augustus Cæsar.
Nos. 95 and 96, portraits of Agrippa.
No. 98, Tiberius with his mother.
No. 124, Livia.
No. 105, Caligula.
No. 106, Nero.
No. 107, The younger Britannicus.
No. 108, Galba.
No. 109, Vespasian.
Some other portraits, and a few representations of animals,
complete the collection of ancient cameos.
The most important modern intagli are on the opposite
side.
No. 345, the copy of the celebrated gem by Pamphilus,,
now in Paris, representing Achilles seated on a rock by the
sea.
No. 346, the copy of the Dioscorides gem, belonging to
the Duke of Devonshire ; Diomedes with the Palladium.
No. 354, a chalcedony : an allegorical representation of a
marriage before a temple, by Valerio Vicentino.