l6 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



2. The dedication of the Temple by Alexander the Great ; on a stone from the antae. 

 By this inscription the date of the architecture and sculpture of the Temple may be fixed 

 to B.C. 334-323. Published by Boeckh, C, I., 290-i. Lebas, No. 187. 



3. Decree of the senate and people of Priene granting crowns to Hegesias, son of 

 Euboulos; Philiskos, son of ApoUonios ; Zoi'los, son of Euagoras, for their services ivhile 

 in office, in reference to the sale of corn. 



4. Decree of the senate and people of Priene, thanking the people of Alexandria for 

 their decree, by which the dicasts sent from Priene are rewarded with crowns for their 

 services, and granting to the envoy sent on this occasion by the Alexandrians a present 

 and a military escort on his return. 



5. Decree of the senate and people of Erythrae, granting gold crowns and other honours 

 to the people of Priene, and to Kleandros, son of Kaliistratos, for his services as a dicast, 

 and an olive crown to Moaretes, son of Pausanias. 



6. Decree of the senate and people of Priene, granting to Lariclios a bronze equestrian 

 statue, a crown, and various honours and immunities in reward for public services. 



7. Decree of the senate and people of lasus, bestov/iug crowns and other honours on 

 the people of Priene and their envoy Herokrates. Below, on the same marble, a decree 

 of the senate and people of Priene, thanking the people of lasus for the crowns and other 

 honours bestowed by them upon the people of Priene and their envoy Herokrates. 



These five inscriptions, having been discovered in the recent excavations, are un- 

 edited ; the texts are in very fine condition. 



8. Part of a decree in the Doric dialect, bestowing a crown and other honours on the 

 people of Priene, and on Zenodotos, son of Artemon, v/ho had been sent to Priene as a 

 dicast by the city by which the decree is made, and of which the name does not appear 

 on this fragment ; unedited. 



9. Fragment, apparently, of a treaty between the Prienians and Milesians respecting 

 certain lawsuits ; unedited. 



10. Decree, only partially legible, conferring crowns and other honours on certain 

 dicasts for services rendered apparently to the people of Priene ; unedited. 



11. Fragment of an honorary decree, in which is mention of a statue of some city, 

 probably of Priene, of the statue of some benefactor, and of the sum of 3,000 Alexandrian 

 drachmas ; unedited. 



Anliquities. — 1. Pair of bronze wings, 2 feet 5 inches long, which have been gilt ; 

 probably from a figure of Victory. 



2. Several bronze dowels, such as were placed in the centre of drums of columns. 



3. A terra-cotta statuette, 1 foot 7 inches high, representing a draped female figure. 



II. A collection of vases and other antiquities found in Greek tombs at lalysus in the 

 island of Rhodes. 



Presented hij Professor Riisldn. 



Among them are vases of the Gra3Co-Pha;nicIan period, similar to those found at 

 Camirus by Mr. Vice-Consul Blllotti ; spearheads and other instruments in bronze, rings, 

 rosettes, j^lates, and other ornaments in gold tliinly beaten out, glass, porcelain, and pre- 

 cious stones. The most remarkable of these antiquities are, a plate of beaten gold on 

 which is embossed a winged figure of xlssyrlan character, an intaglio on crystal representino* 

 a Cretan goat standing by a palm tree, and a porcelain scarab with the cartouche of 

 Amenoph III., who belongs to the 18th Egyptian dynasty, and whose date is believed to 

 be about B.C. 1450. 



III. A collection of heads in stone and teiTa-cotta from Cyprus. 



Presented by Thomas Sandwith, Esq., H. M. Consul, Crete. 



These antiquities were dug up at a place half-way between Larnaca and Dall, on the 

 presumed site of a temple. Among them are very interesting specimens of early 

 Cypriote art. 



IV. — 1. Four Greek fictile vases, of which the most remarkable is one ornamented 

 with Cupids and arabesques painted In white on a black ground. 



2. A silver vase, found at Colmbra in Portugal, containing six Roman silver denarii of 

 the Julian and other families. 



3. A leaden sling bolt, inscribed B. 



4. A bronze Roman stamjs, inscribed Caius. 



Presented htj John Henderson, Esq. 



V. A male torso in good Greek style from the Fajoum ; and a head of the Emperor 

 Augustus, both in white marble. 



Presented by the Rev. Greville Chester. 



VI. A Greek 



