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refusal of Hippolytus, which has just been communi- PH1GALIAN 
cated to her. The attendants are endeavouring, in _ 
various ways, to console their mistress, and some of Antiquities. 
them attempt to alleviate her distress by the sounds of 
their instruments. 
The large fragment of a bas-relief, numbered 166, 
belongs to the Elgin collection : it represents Hercules 
preparing to strike Diomed, king of Thrace, whom he 
has already knocked down, and is holding by the hair 
of his head. 
The Egyptian paintings, contained in ten glazed 
cases, and deposited for the present in this room, were 
taken from the wall of a tomb under ground, in the year 
1820, and sent to England by the late H. Salt, Esq. 
A torso of Venus, of very fine sculpture, purchased 
in 1821, and an imperfect statue of Hymen, purchased 
in 1831, with a few more articles, are not yet numbered, 
the arrangements of the room not being completed. 
ELGIN SALOON. 
ALL THE ARTICLES IN THIS ROOM, EXCEPT A PEW WHICH 
ARE PARTICULARLY SPECIFIED, BELONGED TO THE EARL 
OF ELGIN. 
Many of the Sculptures in this room having been ELGIN 
described by various authors, and referred to by the SA LQQ Na 
numbers with which they were marked in their former Antiquities, 
situation, those numbers have been retained: but to 
facilitate a reference from the Synopsis to the marbles, 
a fresh set of numbers, adapted to their present dispo¬ 
sition, has been added, which will easily be distinguished 
from the former by being painted in red. The general 
order observed in affixing these numbers to the several 
objects is as follows :— 
1. The metopes of the Parthenon. 
2. The frieze of the Parthenon, commencing on 
the left hand of the visitor as he enters the 
room. 
3. Such of the sculptures placed along the middle 
of 
