180 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ELGIN 
No. 115. A bronze urn,, very richly wrought. It was 
found inclosed within the marble vase in which it now 
stands,, in a tumulus on the road that leads from Port 
Piraeus to the Salaminian ferry and Eleusis. At the time 
of its discovery,, this beautiful urn contained a quantity of 
burnt bones, a small vase of alabaster, and a wreath of 
myrtle in gold. (300.) 
No. 116. A large marble vase; it is of an oval form, 
and within it was found the bronze urn described in the 
preceding number. (301.) 
No. 117- A circular votive altar, ornamented with the 
heads of bulls, from which festoons are suspended. The 
inscription, in Greek, near the bottom, is a prayer for the 
prosperity and health of a person named Casiniax. (91.) 
No. 118. A piece of the shaft of a column, belonging to 
the temple of Erechtheus at Athens. (303.) 
No. 119. An imperfect statue of a youth; it is of 
the size of life, and of the most exquisite workman¬ 
ship. (306.) 
No. 120. Part of the capital of an Ionic column. (306*.) 
No. 121. A circular altar, brought from the island of 
Delos. It is ornamented with the heads of bulls, from which 
festoons of fruit and flowers are suspended. (307-) 
No. 122. A sepulchral solid urn, having three figures in 
bas-relief on the front. The first of these is a warrior with 
a helmet and a shield, who is joining hands with an elderly 
man dressed in a long tunic; the third figure is a female. 
The inscription underneath these figures probably contained 
the names of the parties, but is too mutilated to admit of 
being decyphered. (167.) 
No. 123. A sepulchral column, inscribed with the name 
of Anaxicrates, an Athenian, the son of Dexiochus; beneath 
the inscription is the representation of a sepulchral urn, 
executed in very low relief. (240.) 
No. 124. Another monumental urn, of the same kind, 
inscribed with the name of Pheedimus of Naucratis. 
(A.. 51.) 
No. 125. The capital of an Ionic column, from the por¬ 
tico of the Erechtheium, at Athens. The building to which 
this singularly beautiful piece of architecture belonged, 
was a double temple dedicated to Minerva Polias and Pan- 
drosus. (A. 47.) 
