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This was followed by a consideration of the title “ Medal- 
lion Busts,” assigned to the anaglyphs; which terminated in 
its approval, as a sufficiently intelligible form of expression, 
but not accurately designative of the artistic type according 
to which they had been elaborated. This type was regarded 
as holding a middle place between the ancient “ imagines 
clypeatz” and the “ medallions,” thus marking a transition 
in the progress of the glyptic art. 
The next subject which he submitted to the notice of the 
Academy were two inedited Patmian inscriptions, which con- 
stitute part of his collection of tituli formed during his travels 
in Greece. The first of these contained fourteen lines com- 
posed in the elegiac metre, the last six of which had suffered 
very much from injuries inflicted by time and perhaps bar- 
barism. 
The task which he undertook was, to effect a restoration 
of the whole to a consistent form, by a comparison of the 
poem with similar compositions of Greek authors. He then 
proceeded to read a literal translation of the verses so res- 
tored, the general subject of which were notices respecting 
the Artemisiac worship established in Patmos, and, subordi- 
nately to these, the praise of the island, as having been the 
scene of the liberation of Oréstes from the vengeful persecu- 
tion of the Erinyes, consequent upon the’ murder of Kly- 
taimnéstra. 
The second titulus was a fragment of a decree on the part 
of the Kowwdv, or ‘* General Convention” of the Icarian Tap- 
d«riot, in favour of a benefactor of the community named 
Chryséstomos. A literal translation of this monument also 
was given, on the basis of restorations which had been effected 
_ by adopting the municipal phraseology of certain inscriptions 
forming part of the author’s collection. 
