206 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ELGIN 
No. 260. A piece of Doric entablature, originally 
painted. (154.) 
No. 261. A Greek inscription, imperfect at the end, 
being a contract 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 inscribed with the name of Timophon, the son 
of Timostratus, and a native of Anagyrus, whose inhabit¬ 
ants 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 duted and reeded. (297-) 
No. 266. A sepulchral stele, with a very ancient in¬ 
scription to the memory of Aristophosa and others. A pe¬ 
culiarity occurs in this inscription, 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 Par¬ 
thenon 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.) 
No. 269. Fragment of a Greek inscription, very imper¬ 
fect. (193.) 
No. 270 . Ditto. (190.) 
No. 271. Ditto. (1970 
No. 272. Ditto. (189.) 
No. 273. Ditto. (179.) 
No. 274. A sepulchral Greek inscription, engraved on a 
piece of entablature. It consists of two lines in prose, and 
sixteen in pentameter verse. The name of the deceased 
was Publius Pheedrus, a native of Sunium, son of Theo- 
philus and Cecropia, and grandson of Pistoteles. The in¬ 
scription states that he was of noble family, and that his 
death was followed by the universal regret of the Athe¬ 
nians, on account of his youth, learning, wisdom, and per¬ 
sonal accomplishments. (153.) 
