72 GREEK ANTIQUITIES. [GROUND 
No. 175. Part of the interior frieze of a tomb at Antiphellus, pro- 
bably representing nymphs. 
No. ] 76. Greek inscription of the Roman Imperial times. 
No. 176*. Cippus, in shape of a cinerary urn. 
In a glass case, in the middle of the room, are several 
smaller objects, found in the Acropolis of Xanthus. 
The door on the North side of the Lycian Gallery opens 
into a small ante-room, in which are on one side a Canephora, 
and in the opposite recess a figure of Apollo • round the walls 
on each side are a number of heads, most of which represent 
philosophers and other real personages. Those of Demos- 
thenes and Pericles are among the most interesting. 
FIRST ELGIN ROOM.] 
This and the succeeding room contain the sculp toes and 
inscriptions from Athens and Attica. The largest and most 
valuable portion was obtained by the Earl of Elgin, when 
Ambassador at Constantinople, in the years 1801—1803, by 
virtue of a firman from the Sublime Porte, authorizing him to 
remove from Athens whatever monuments he might desire. 
The Elgin Collection, which includes some additional marbles 
acquired subsequently to 1803, with several casts and minor 
objects, was purchased from the Earl by Parliament, in 1816, 
for i, 3 3 5,000. Besides the Elgin Marbles, these rooms con- 
tain several casts of monuments now at Athens, obtained 
by permission of the present Greek Government, with a few 
other minor objects. 
The most important series in this room consists of the two 
groups, arranged one on each side, which originally decorated 
the Eastern and Western pediments of the Parthenon, or temple 
of Minerva, at Athens. Of this building some notice will 
be given in the description of the succeeding, or Second Elgin 
Room, to which its remains more properly belong : the pedi- 
rnental figures having only been transferred to this room 
owing to the want of space in the other for so arranging 
them as not to interfere with the frieze which surrounds it. 
These statues, executed under the superintendence of Phidias, 
