186 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ELGIN 
flowers and other ornaments, which are designed with the 
most perfect taste, and are chiselled with a degree of sharp¬ 
ness 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 action ; they are 
presumed to be the feet of Minerva, from the west pedi¬ 
ment of the Parthenon. See No. 102. (201.) 
No. 257- An amphora. (171 •) 
No. 258. The upper part of a sepulchral stele, having 
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 Olyn- 
thus, a city in Macedonia. (169.) 
No. 259. The upper part of a sepulchral stele, inscribed 
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 inhabit¬ 
ants 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 column, 
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 pe¬ 
culiarity occurs in this inscription, namely, that the letters 
vo are twice used for viov. (214.) 
No. 267- A Greek inscription, engraved on two sides of 
a thick slab of marble. It is an inventory of the valuable 
articles which were kept in the Opisthodomos of the Par¬ 
thenon at Athens. (305.) 
No. 268. A fragment of the capital of a Corinthian 
