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No. 290. A very ancient Greek inscription, room xv. 
which has served as an epitaph on the tomb of Antiquities. 
the Athenian warriors killed at Potidaea. This 
inscription, which originally consisted of twelve 
elegiac verses, has suffered from the injuries of 
time. 
No. 291. A piece of the architrave belonging 
to the temple of Erechtheus, at Athens. 
No. 292. A funeral inscription to the memory 
of Polyllus; it consists of one line in prose, and 
two in verse. The line in prose gives us only 
the name and titles of Polyllus, and the verses 
intimate that Polystratus had erected a statue to 
the deceased, and had placed it under the pro¬ 
tection of Minerva j the marble on which this 
inscription is cut, formed a part of the base on 
which the statue stood. 
No. 292*. The upper part of a sepulchral 
stele, inscribed with the name of Eumachus, 
who was the son of Eumachus, and of the city 
of Alopece. Presented^ in 1785, by the Dilettanti 
Society, 
No. 293. A small statue of a boy, imperfect; 
he is in the attitude of looking up. 
No. 294. A fragment of a metope of the Par¬ 
thenon ; it is the torso of one of the Lapithse. 
No. 295. The capital of an Ionic column be¬ 
longing to a temple of Diana, at Daphne, in the 
road to Eleusis. 
No. 296. A female torso, covered with dra¬ 
pery. 
No. 297. 
