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with the most perfect taste, and are chiseled with a de¬ 
gree of sharpness and precision truly admirable. (127— 
130.) 
No. 256. 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 ac¬ 
tion ; they are presumed to be the feet of Minerva, 
from the west pediment of the Parthenon. See No. 
102 . ( 201 .) 
No. 257. An amphora. (171.) 
No. 258. The upper part of a sepulchral stele, hav¬ 
ing the inscription, as well as the arabesque ornament 
on the summit, perfect. The inscription is to the 
memory of Asclepiodorus the son of Thraso, and 
Epicydes the son of Asclepiodorus ; both the deceased 
were natives of Olynthus, a city in Macedonia. (169.) 
No. 259. The upper part of a sepulchral stele, in¬ 
scribed with the name of Euphrosynus. (155.) 
No. 260. A. piece of Doric entablature, originally 
painted. (154.) 
No. 261. A Greek inscription, imperfect at the end, 
being a contract respecting the letting of some lands 
and salt pits by the people of Piraeus. Presented , in 
1785, by the Dilettanti Society . (289.) 
No. 262. An unknown bust. (100.) 
No. 263. A sepulchral solid urn, ornamented with 
reeds, and inscribed with the name of Timophon, the 
son of Timostratus, and a native of Anagyrus, whose 
inhabitants were of the tribe of Erechtheis. (163.) 
No. 264. The capital of an Ionic column belonging 
to a temple of Diana, at Daphne, in the road to Eleusis. 
(295.) 
No. 265. A piece of the shaft of a small Ionic co¬ 
lumn, the lower part of which is fluted and reeded. 
(297.) 
No. 266. A sepulchral stele, with a very ancient in¬ 
scription to the memory of Aristophosa and others. A 
peculiarity occurs in this inscription, namely, that the 
letters vo are twice used for viou, (214.) 
ELGIN 
SALOON. 
Antiquities. 
No. 267. 
