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ROOM XIV. 
AnTIQL’ITIFS. 
purpose of covering the joints of the greater 
tiles; the ornament in front surmounted the 
cornice. From the same temple. 
No. 40. Another tile used for the same pur¬ 
pose, but on the point of the ridge. From the 
same temple. 
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES CONTAINED IN THIS 
ROOM FORM A PART OF THE COLLECTION WHICH 
BELONGED TO THE EARL OF ELGIN. 
No. 41. An Egyptian scarabaaus, or beetle, 
brought from Constantinople. 
No. 42. An architectural statue; it was one 
of the Caryatides which supported the roof under 
which the olive-tree of Minerva was sheltered, 
in the temple of Pandrosus at Athens. 
No. 43. A piece of the shaft of an Ionic 
column. 
No. 44. The capital of an Ionic column be¬ 
longing to the temple of Diana, at Daphne, on 
the road from Athens to Eleusis. 
No. 45. A piece of the shaft of an Ionic co¬ 
lumn, belonging to the same temple. 
No. 46. The base of an Ionic column, like¬ 
wise belonging to the same temple. 
No. 47. The capital of an Ionic column, from 
the portico 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 Pandrosus. 
Nos. 48, 49. 
