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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 Ca- 
siniax. (91.) 
No. 118. A piece of the shaft of a column, belong¬ 
ing to the temple of Erechtheus at Athens. (303.) 
No. 119. An imperfect statue of a youth; it is of 
the size of life, and of the most exquisite workman¬ 
ship. (306.) 
No. 120. Part of the capital of an Ionic column. (306.*) 
No. 121. A circular altar, brought from the island 
of Delos. It is ornamented with the heads of bulls, from 
which festoons of fruit and flowers are suspended. (307.) 
No. 122. A sepulchral solid urn, having three figures 
in bas-relief on the front. The first of these is a war¬ 
rior with a helmet and a shield, who is joining hands 
with an elderly man dressed in a long tunic; the third 
figure is a female. The inscription underneath these 
figures probably contained the names of the parties, 
but is too mutilated to admit of being decyphered. (167.) 
No. 123. A sepulchral column, inscribed with the 
name of Anaxicrates, an Athenian, the son of Dexio- 
chus ; beneath the inscription is the representation of a 
sepulchral urn, executed in very low relief. (240.) 
No. 124. Another monumental urn, of the same kind, 
inscribed with the name of Phaedimus of Naucratis. 
(A. 51.) 
No. 125. The capital of an Ionic column, from the 
portico of the Erechtheium, at Athens. The building 
to which this singularly beautiful piece of architecture 
belonged, was a double temple dedicated to Minerva 
Polias and Pandrosus. (A. 47.) 
Nos. 126, 127. A portion of the shaft, and the base, 
of the same column. (A. 48, 49.) 
No. 128. An architectural statue; it was one of the 
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