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What are those?

These figures are of the Caberii, a race of dwarves who inhabited the isle of Samathrace in the Aegean. The Caberii instructed the Princes of Greece in the "Mysteries". The doorway is covered in astrological signs and latin inscriptions. It was probably used in certain rituals. Interestingly these objects are next to Gaius Marius's monument. Gaius was a well known magican and priest of the temple of Jupiter in his day, as well as being one of Rome's most successful generals. I suspect that he probably brought the Dwarves to Rome, and created the doorway. All these objects were found in the alchemical laboratory of Guissepe Fransisco Borri, when he died having been incarcerated by the Pope in a damp cell for declaring himself "The Second Coming". The Marquis of Palumboro - a devotee of Borri's who found these things set them up in the wall of his garden on the street side with a notice requesting that anyone who could make any sense of the inscriptions should contact him. No one ever did!!