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ROOM XIV. 
Antiquities, 
ROOM XV. 
Antiquities, 
subject of this frieze is the story of Bacchus and 
the Tyrrhenian pirates. 
Nos. 98, 99. Casts in plaster, from one of the 
ends of the celebrated sarcophagus in the cathe¬ 
dral church at Agrigentum, which represents the 
story of Phaedra and Hippolytus. Phaedra is here 
represented surrounded by her female domestics, 
and plunged into grief at the refusal of Hippoly¬ 
tus, which has just been communicated to her. 
The attendants are endeavouring in various ways 
to console their mistress, and some of them at¬ 
tempt to alleviate her distress by the sounds of 
their instruments. 
No. ]00. A cast in. plaster of a portion of the 
frieze from the east front of the Parthenon. The 
original is in the French collection. Presented, 
in 1820, hy Francis Chantrey, Esq, 
No. 101, A torso of Venus, of very fine sculp¬ 
ture. Purchased in 1821. 
The fragments of mosaic pavement (placed 
for the present in this room) were found at With- 
ington in Gloucestershire. They *were present¬ 
ed, in 1811, hy Henry Brooke, Esq, 
FIFTEENTH ROOM. 
ALL THE ARTICLES IN THIS ROOM, EXCEPT A FEW 
WHICH ARE PARTICULARLY SPECIFIED, BELONG¬ 
ED TO THE EARL OF ELGIN. 
No. 1-—15. Fifteen of the metopes belonging 
to the Parthenon, which, alternately with the 
triglyphs, 
