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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 

 clypeatae" 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 Orestes from the vengeful persecu- 

 tion of the Erinyes, consequent upon the murder of Kly- 

 taimnestra. 



The second titulus was a fragment of a decree on the part 

 of the Koivov, or "General Convention" of the Icarian Ilap- 

 atcrtoi, in favour of a benefactor of the community named 

 Chrysostomos. 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. 



