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GEEEK ANTIQUITIES. 
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relief, representing a winged youth, probably the Genius of 
the Games, setting two cocks to fight. Inside the back of 
the chair are two Satyrs, and on the front two Arimaspi 
righting with Gryphons. The other chair was the official 
seat of one of the ten Athenian Strategi (Generals) in the 
theatre. 
In the Room recently added to the North end of the 
Elgin Room, are a colossal lion, discovered at Knidos in 185 8 
(see Newton, Hist, of Discoveries, II., Part 2, p. 480), a 
sculptured drum of a column from the temple of Diana at 
Ephesus, a fragment of a similar drum, an Ionic capital and 
a base of a column with part of lowermost drum from the 
same building. The lion originally surmounted a Doric tomb 
which stood on a promontory a little to the east of Knidos, 
and which originally consisted of a square basement surrounded 
by a Doric peristyle, with engaged columns, and surmounted 
by a pyramid, the apex of which was crowned by the lion. 
Inside the tomb was a beehive-shaped chamber with Egyptian 
vaulting, similar to that of the building known as the Treasury 
of Atreus, at Mycenae, and with eleven smaller cells radiating 
from its circumference. This tomb was evidently a public 
monument of the class called polyandrion, and from its 
position on a promontory, must have been a conspicuous sea- 
mark. Hence it has been conjectured, with probability, that 
it was intended to commemorate the naval victory gained 
over the Lacedaemonians by the Athenian admiral, Conon, 
B.C. 394. 
The door on the East side leads into the 
HELLENIC ROOM. 
The marbles exhibited in this room have been brought, at 
different times, from various parts of Greece and its colonies. 
With them are also exhibited plaster casts of some important 
monuments of the period preceding that of the marbles. The 
description commences with the casts. 
On each side of the room are placed restorations of the Eastern and 
Western pediments of a Doric temple in the island of JEgina, erected 
probably about B.C. 500 — 478, and dedicated to Athene. The figures 
