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flowers and other ornaments,, which are designed with the 
most perfect taste* and are chiselled with a degree of sharp¬ 
ness and precision truly admirable. (127—130.) 
No. 256. The base on which a statue has stood; the 
feet* which still remain* are very wide apart* and shew that 
the figure must have been in powerful action; they are 
presumed to be the feet of Minerva* from the west pedi¬ 
ment of the Parthenon. See No. 102. (201.) 
No. 257. An amphora. (171.) 
No. 258. The upper part of a sepulchral stele* having 
the inscription* as well as the arabesque ornament on the 
summit* perfect. The inscription is to the memory of 
Asclepiodorus the son of Thraso* and Epicydes the son of 
Asclepiodorus; both the deceased were natives of Olyn- 
thus* a city in Macedonia. (169.) 
No. 259. The upper part of a sepulchral stele* inscribed 
with the name of Euphrosynus. (155.) 
No. 260. A piece of Doric entablature* originally 
painted. (154.) 
No. 261. A Greek inscription* imperfect at the end, 
being a contract respecting the letting of some lands and 
salt pits by the people of Piraeus. Presented * in 1785* by 
the Dilettanti Society . (289.) 
No. 262. An unknown bust. (100.) 
No. 263. A sepulchral solid urn* ornamented with 
reeds* and inscribed with the name of Timophon* the son 
of Timostratus* and a native of Anagyrus* whose inhabit¬ 
ants were of the tribe of Erechtheis. (163.) 
No. 264. The capital of an Ionic column belonging to 
a temple of Diana* at Daphne* in the road to Eleusis. 
(295.) 
No. 265. A piece of the shaft of a small Ionic column, 
the lower part of which is fluted and reeded. (2970 
No. 266. A sepulchral stele* with a very ancient in¬ 
scription to the memory of Aristophosa and others. A pe¬ 
culiarity occurs in this inscription* namely* that the letters 
vo are twice used for viov. (214.) 
No. 267. A Greek inscription* engraved on two sides of 
a thick slab of marble. It is an inventory of the valuable 
articles which were kept in the Opisthodomos of the Par¬ 
thenon at Athens. (305.) 
No. 268. A fragment of the capital of a Corinthian 
