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ROOM XV. 
Antiquities.. 
No. 199. The celebrated Sigean inscription, 
first published by Chishull, in his Antiquitates 
Asiaticse”, and afterwards more correctly by 
Chandler in his Inscriptiones Antiqiiae.^^ It 
is written in the most ancient Greek characters, 
and in the hustroi^hedon manner, that is to say, 
the lines follow each other in the same direction 
as the ox passes from one furrow to another in 
ploughing. The purport of the inscription is to 
record the presentation of three vessels, namely, 
a cup, a saucer or stcind, and a strainer for the 
use of the Prytaneum, or hall of justice, of the 
Sigeans. The name of the donor was Phanodi- 
CLis, the son of Hermocrates, and a native of 
Proconnesus. 
No. 200. A Greek inscription, imperfect, 
engraved in very ancient characters \ it seems 
to be an inventory of some treasures, probably 
those contained in the Parthenon, and which 
the Qusestors acknowledge to have received 
from their predecessors in the same office. The 
incription not only fills one side of the marble, 
but also the right edge. 
No. 201. The base on which a statue has 
stood ; the feet, which still remain, are very 
wide apart, and shew that the figure must have 
been in powerful action. 
No. 202. A torso of a male figure, probably 
that of iEsculapius. 
No. 203. A sepulchral column to the memory 
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