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ROOM XV. 
Antiquities. 
No. 81. A fragment of a boy, holding a bird 
under his arm, and feeding it. 
No. 82. A bas-relief, representing a young man 
standing between two goddesses, Vesta and Minerva, 
who are crowning him. 
No. 83. A Greek inscription in the Doric dialect; 
it is a dedication to Bacchus, by Alexas the son of 
Nicon, and Cephisodorus the son of Aglaophsedas, 
who had both been victorious in the choruses of men. 
No. 84. A fragment of a bas-relief, representing 
an elderly man before one of the gods, probably 
Bacchus, who appears to hold a vase in his right 
hand. 
No. 85. A piece of the architrave of the Erec- 
theum, at Athens. 
No. 86. A votive Greek inscription of Anti- 
sthenes, the priest of Pandion: he was the son 
of Antiphates, and belonged to the tribe of Pan- 
dionis. 
No. 88. A Greek inscription from xVthens, sig¬ 
nifying that certain gifts, which are specified, had 
been consecrated to some goddess, probably Venus, 
by a female who held the office of lighter of the 
lamps, and interpreter of dreams, in the temple of 
the goddess. The name of this female, which was 
no doubt inserted at the beginning of the inscrip¬ 
tion, is now lost. 
No. 89. A fragment of a bas-relief, represent¬ 
ing Minerva placing a crown upon a person’s 
head. 
No. 90. 
