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No. 236. A sepulchral inscription, in six elegiac 
verses, to a young man of the name of Plutarchus, who 
died in Ausonia, at a distance from his native country. 
(242.) 
No. 237. A Greek inscription, imperfect. (287.) 
No. 238. An amphora. (215.) 
No. 239. An unknown female head, the hair of 
which is concealed within a close head-dress. (122.) 
No. 240. A fragment of an unknown female head. 
(255.) 
No. 241. A fragment of a bas-relief, representing an 
unknown female head : from the style of the hair, 
which is curiously plaited, we may fix the sculpture to 
about the time of Antoninus Pius. (123.) 
No. 242. A head of the bearded Hercules. (120.) 
No. 243. A head of the bearded Hercules, similar 
to the last, but of larger dimensions. (117.) 
No. 244. A large head. (266.) 
No. 245. A female torso, covered with drapery. (296.) 
No. 246. A large head. (263.) 
No. 247. An unknown bearded head, very much 
mutilated: it is larger than life, and is crowned with a 
very thick cord-shaped diadem. (119.) 
No. 248. The head of a middle-aged man, with a 
conical bonnet; it appears to have had very little beard, 
and is most probably the head of a mariner. (116.) 
No. 249. A fragment of a head, crowned with vine 
leaves: it appears to have been executed at a declining 
period of the arts. (121.) 
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.) 
252 —255. Four pieces of the frieze from the 
temple of Erechtheus at Athens ; they are enriched 
with flowers and other ornaments, which are designed 
with 
