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GREEK SCULPTURES. 
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No. 250. An unknown female head, the hair of which is confined 
within a close elegantly formed cap. The same style of head-dress is 
observable on some of the silver coins of Corinth. (114.) 
No. 251. The head of a laughing figure, executed in the early 
hard style of Greek sculpture. (115.) 
No. 252 — 255. Four pieces of the frieze from the temple of 
Ereehtheus at Athens ; they are enriched with flowers and other 
ornaments, which are designed with the most perfect taste, and are 
chiselled with a degree of sharpness and precision truly admirable. 
(127—130.) 
No. 256. The base on which a statue has stood ; the feet, which 
still remain, are very wide apart, and shew that the figure must 
have been in powerful action ; they are presumed to be the feet of 
Minerva, from the west pediment of the Parthenon. See No. 102. 
( 201 .) 
No. 257. An amphora. (171.) 
No. 258. The upper part of a sepulchral stele, having the inscription, 
as well as the arabesque ornament on the summit, perfect. The in- 
scription is to the memory of Asclepiodorus the son of Thraso, and 
Epicydes the son of Asclepiodorus ; both the deceased were natives of 
Olynthus, a city in Macedonia. (169.) 
No. 259. The upper part of a sepulchral stele, inscribed with the 
name of Euphrosynus. (155.) 
No. 260. A piece of Doric entablature, originally painted. (154.) 
No. 261. A Greek inscription, imperfect at the end, being a con- 
tract respecting the letting of some lands and salt pits by the people of 
Piraeus. Presented , in 1785, by the Dilettanti Society. (289.) 
No. 262. An unknown bust. (100.) 
No. 263. A sepulchral solid urn, ornamented with reeds, and in- 
scribed with the name of Timophon, the son of Timostratus, and a native 
of Anagyrus, whose inhabitants were of the tribe of Erechtheis. 
(163.) 
No. 264. The capital of an Ionic column belonging to a temple of 
Diana, at Daphne, in the road to Eleusis. (295.) 
No. 265. A piece of the shaft of a small Ionic column, the lower 
part of which is fluted and reeded. (297.) 
No. 266. A sepulchral stele, with a very ancient inscription to the 
memory of Aristophosa and others. A peculiarity occurs in this in- 
scription, namely, that the letters vo are twice used for viov. (214.) 
No. 267. A Greek inscription, engraved on two sides of a thick 
slab of marble. It is an inventory of the valuable articles which were 
kept in the Opisthodomos of the Parthenon at Athens. (305.) 
No. 268. A fragment of the capital of a Corinthian column : it is 
ornamented with the leaves of the laurel and acanthus. (102.) 
Shelf 6:— 
No. 269. Fragment of a Greek inscription, very imperfect. (193.) 
No. 270. Ditto. (190.) 
No. 271. Ditto. (197.) 
No. 272. Ditto. (189.) 
No. 273. Fragment of a Greek inscription. (179.) 
No. 274. A sepulchral Greek inscription, engraved on a piece of 
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