196 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. pELGIN 
tiones Antiquee.” It is written in the most ancient Greek 
characters, and in the bustrophedon manner, that is to say, 
the lines follow each other in the same direction as the ox 
passes from one furrow to another in ploughing. The pur¬ 
port of the inscription is to record the presentation of three 
vessels, namely, a cup, a saucer or stand, and a strainer, 
for the use of the Prytaneum, or hall of justice, of the 
Sigeans. The name of the donor was Phanodicus, the son 
of Hermocrates, and a native of Proconnesus. (199.) 
No. 108. A piece of the ceiling of the temple of Erech- 
theus at Athens. (299.) 
No. 109. The lower part of a female statue covered 
with drapery. (299 % .) 
No. 110. A piece of the shaft of an Ionic column, be¬ 
longing to the temple of Erechtheus at Athens. (312.) 
No. 111. A colossal statue of Bacchus, from the 
choragic monument of Thrasyllus, at Athens. It is a 
sitting figure covered with the skin of a lion, and with a 
broad belt round the waist; it was originally placed on 
the summit of the edifice, at a height rather exceeding 
twenty-seven feet. (205.) 
No. 112. The capital, and a piece of the shaft of one of 
the Doric columns of the Parthenon. (2070 
No. 113. A female statue without head and arms, found 
in the temple of Themis at Rhamnus in Attica. Presented , 
in 1820, by John P. Gandy Peering , Esq. (307*.) 
No. 114. A piece of the shaft of a column, belonging to 
the temple of Erechtheus at Athens. (304.) 
No. 115. A bronze urn, very richly wrought. It was 
found inclosed within the marble vase in which it now 
stands, in a tumulus on the road that leads from Port 
Piraeus to the Salaminian ferry and Eleusis. At the time 
of its discovery, this beautiful urn contained a quantity of 
burnt bones, a small vase of alabaster, and a wreath of 
myrtle in gold. (300.) 
No. 116. A large marble vase; it is of an oval form, 
and within it was found the bronze urn described in the 
preceding number. (301.) 
No. 117. A circular votive altar, ornamented with the 
heads of bulls, from which festoons are suspended. The 
inscription, in Greek, near the bottom, is a prayer for the 
prosperity and health of a person named Casiniax. (91.) 
