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FIRST ELGIN ROOM. 
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No. 166. Casts of the sculptures of a rock tomb at Myra, coloured to 
represent its present condition. 
No. 168. Remains of a Roman sarcophagus, decorated with bas-reliefs ; 
on the cover have been a male and female figure reclining. 
No. 169. Portion of a sarcophagus, with its roof-cover; on it are 
boys, or cupids, trundling hoops, and playing at ball. 
No. 172. Two metopes, with the head of Diana, from the Roman 
arch at Xanthus. 
No. 173. Roman square monument; on one side are Plutus and 
Fortune, on the other is a Persian, shooting at various animals. 
No. 175. Part of the interior frieze of a tomb at Antiphellus, pro- 
bably representing nymphs. 
No. 176. Greek inscription of the Roman Imperial times. 
No. 176-i^. 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, at present not arranged, in which will 
be placed sculptures and inscriptions from some of the islands 
of the Greek Archipelago. 
FIRST ELGIN ROOM. 
This and the succeeding room contain the sculptures 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 o£'35,000. Besides the Elgin Marbles, these rooms con- 
tain a few sculptures presented by J. Gandy Daring, Esq., in 
1820, some Greek inscriptions presented, in 1785, by the 
Dilettanti Society, and several casts of monuments now at 
Athens, obtained by permission of the present Greek Govern- 
ment, 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 
