252 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. TeLGIN 
which is distinguished by a number of epithets, among 
which are two derived from the names of Hadrian and 
Antoninus. The Society appears to have been formed of 
musicians, and the decree to have been passed in honour of 
Bacchus and the Emperor Antoninus Pius. A patera is 
represented on the upper part of this marble. (161.) 
No. 236. A sepulchral inscription, in six elegiac 
verses, to a young man of the name of Plutarchus, who 
died in Ausonia, at a distance from his native country. 
(242.) 
No. 237. A Greek inscription, imperfect. (287-) 
No. 238. An amphora. (215.) 
No. 239. An unknown female head, the hair of which 
is concealed within a close head-dress. (122.) 
No. 240. A fragment of am unknown female head. (255.) 
No. 241. A fragment of a bas-relief, representing an 
unknown female head : from the style of the hair, which 
is curiously plaited, we may fix the sculpture to about the 
time of Antoninus Pius. (123.) 
No. 242. A head of the bearded Hercules. (120.) 
No. 243. A head of the bearded Hercules, similar to 
the last, but of larger dimensions. ( 117 -) 
No. 244. A large head. (266.) 
No. 245. A female torso, covered w 7 ith drapery. (296.) 
No. 246. A large head. (263.) 
No. 247. An unknown bearded head, very much muti¬ 
lated : it is larger than life, and is crowned with a very 
thick cord-shaped diadem,. (119.) 
No. 248. The head of a middle-aged man, with a conical 
bonnet; it appears to have had very little beard, and is 
most probably the head of a mariner. (116.) 
No. 249. A fragment of a head, crowned with vine 
leaves : it appears to have been executed at a declining 
period of the arts. (121.) 
No. 250. An unknown female head, the hair of which 
is confined within a close elegantly formed cap. The same 
style of head-dress is observable on some of the silver coins 
of Corinth. (114.) 
No. 251. The head of a laughing figure, executed in the 
early hard style of Greek sculpture. (115.) 
No. 252—255. Four pieces of the frieze from the 
temple of Erechtheus at Athens ; they are enriched with 
