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ROOM XV. 
Anti quities. 
chiseled with a degree of sharpness and precision ^ 
truly admirable. 
No. 134—147. Fragments of figures, many of 
which have belonged to the metopes of the Par¬ 
thenon. 
No. 148. A cinerary urn, ornamented in front 
with four standing figures; two of these, in the 
centre, are joining hands, the other two are in a 
pensive attitude. The names of all the figures 
were originally inscribed on the urn ; the first name 
is not legible; the others are Philia, Metrodora^ and 
Meles. 
No. 149f A sepulchral column of Tlialia, the 
daughter of Callistratus, of Aexone. 
No. 150. A fragment of a sepulchral stele; the 
inscription is very imperfect, but records the name 
of Musonia. The summit is ornamented with the 
figure of a butterfly on some fruit. 
No. 151. A fragment of a statue covered with 
drapery. 
No. 152. A sepulchral Greek inscription, in ten 
verses, of which the fwo first and the two last are 
in the elegiac measure, and the rest are hexame¬ 
ters. The inscription is in memory of a young 
lady of extraordinary beauty, named Tryphera, who 
died at the early age of 25 years. 
No. 153. A sepulchral Greek inscription, en¬ 
graved on a piece of entablature. It consists of two 
lines in prose, and sixteen in pentameter verse. 
The 
