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ROOM xv« 297. A piece of the shaft of a small 
Antiquities. Jonic column, the lower part of which is fluted 
and reeded. 
No. 298. A Greek inscription, engraved on 
two sides of a large piece of marble. It is an 
inventory of the sacred treasures belonging to 
the Parthenon. 
No. 299. A piece of the ceiling of the tem¬ 
ple of Erechtheus, at Athens. 
No. 299^. The lower part of a female statue 
covered with drapery. 
No. 300. A bronze urn, very richly wrought. 
It was found inclosed wdthin 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. 
No. SOI. A large marble vase; it is of an 
oval form, and within it was found the bronze 
urn described in the preceding number. 
No. 302. A Greek inscription, engraved oh 
two sides of a tablet of marble. It is a decree of 
the council of the Boeotians, ordaining the elec¬ 
tion of three extraordinary magistrates, who, in 
concert with the ordinary magistrates, were to 
take charge of the re-casting some articles of 
gold and silver, belonging to the temple of Am- 
phiaraus, and which had been injured by the 
effects of time. 
No. 303. 
