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GREEK SCULPTURES. 
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No. 44. Hermaic stele of Demeter; dedicated by Cheionis. 
From Mantinea, in Arcadia. Presented by Colonel Leake, 1838. 
No. 45. Torso of a naked statue of Apollo. From Luku, proba¬ 
bly the ancient Thyrea, in the Peloponnese. Presented by Colonel 
Leake , 1838. 
Nos. 46. Small inscriptions dedicated to the Favourable Winds. 
No. 47. Head of Jupiter, the Thunderer, of coarse workmanship, 
dedicated by a person named Agesilaus. From Dorylaeum in Phrygia. 
No. 48. Sepulchral inscription of the tomb of Hermes and Thoidote, 
children of Apollodorus, forbidding under the direst curses any one 
except members of the family to be placed in the sepulchre or the 
monument to be removed. From Halicarnassus. 
No. 49. Votive tablet by soldiers on the march from Nacaleia to the 
Chersonesus. 
No. 51. Bas-relief, representing a dedication of hair to Poseidon by 
Philombrotus and Aphthonetus, children of Deinomachus. Found in 
the ruins of Phthiotic Thebes in Thessaly. Presented by Col. I^eake. 
No. 52, 53. Two circular altars ornamented with festoons of flowers 
and fruit, and with bucrania . From the Island of Delos. 
No. 54. Part of a sepulchral tablet of Theophila, a lady. 
No. 55. Pedestal of the statue of Jupiter Urius, which stood within 
the temple of that god at the mouth of the Euxine. The statue was 
dedicated by Philon, son of Antipator, to the god, and was subsequently 
removed by Verres. 
No. 56. Torso of Triton, in alto-relievo. The lower part of the 
body has been ornamented with metallic work. 
At the sides of the Saloon, over the Phigalian frieze, are two pedi¬ 
ments, of precisely the same form and dimensions as those which deco¬ 
rated the eastern and western ends of the Temple of Jupiter Panhelle- 
nius, in the island of iEgina. The ruins of this temple were visited in 
1811 by Mr. Cockerell and other gentlemen, and extensive and careful 
excavations were carried on, by which all the members and details of 
the cornice and mouldings have been ascertained; and the minute and 
accurate measurements then made have been the authorities from which 
these imitations have been constructed. The greater part of the statues 
which adorned these pediments were at the same time discovered, and 
every circumstance illustrative of their original position, with relation to 
the architecture of the temple, was noted with as much accuracy as the 
case would admit. From the notes then made, and from long and 
careful study of the sculptures themselves, and the space which they 
occupied, Mr. Cockerell composed the groups very much in the mode 
in which they are now exhibited. From the violence with which the 
temple had been destroyed, probably by an earthquake, all the statues 
had been in some degree mutilated, and some so entirely destroyed that 
it was in vain to attempt their restoration. Those which were capable 
of repair were committed to the hands of Mr. Thorwaldsen, and in 
uniting the broken fragments, and restoring the parts of them that were 
deficient, that eminent artist has shown the greatest care and sagacity. 
The pediment at the north side of the room is taken from the western 
end of the temple; it contains ten figures, and it is supposed that there 
was originally one more, who was stooping down to assist the fallen 
warrior, who is wounded, at the feet of Minerva. The subject is sup. 
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