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No. 240. A fragment of an unknown female head. (255. 
No. 241. A fragment of a bas-relief, representing an unknown 
female head: from the style of the hair, which is curiously plaited, we 
may fix the sculpture to about the time of Antoninus Pius. (123.) 
No. 242. A head of the bearded Hercules. (120.) 
No. 243. A head of the bearded Hercules, similar to the last, but 
of larger dimensions. (117.) 
No. 244. A large head. (266.) 
No. 245. A female torso, covered with drapery. (296.) 
No. 246. A large head. (263.) 
No. 247. An unknown bearded head, very much mutilated: it is 
larger than life, and is crowned with a very thick cord-shaped diadem. 
(119.) 
No. 248. The head of a middle-aged man, with a conical bonnet; 
it appears to have had very little beard, and is most probably the head 
of a mariner. (116.) 
No. 249. A fragment of a head, crowned with vine leaves; it ap¬ 
pears to have been executed at a declining period of the arts. (121.) 
No. 250. An unknown female head, the hair of which is confined 
within a close elegantly formed cap. The same style of head-dress is 
observable on some of the silver coins of Corinth. (114.) 
No. 251. The head of a laughing figure, executed in the early 
hard ^Eginetan style of sculpture. (115.) 
No. 252—255. Four pieces of the frieze from the temple of 
Erechtheus at Athens; they are enriched with flowers and other 
ornaments, which are designed with the most perfect taste, and are 
chiselled with a degree of sharpness 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 pediment of the Parthenon. See No. 102. 
( 201 .) 
No. 257. An amphora. (171.) 
No. 258. The upper partofa sepulchral stele, having the inscription, 
as w r ell as the arabesque ornament on the summit, perfect. The in¬ 
scription is to the memory of Asclepiodorus the son of Thraso, and 
Epicydes the son of Asclepiodorus ; both the deceased were natives of 
Olynthus, 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 con¬ 
tract 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 in¬ 
scribed wdth the name of Timophon, the son of Timostratus, and a native 
of Anagyrus, whose inhabitants 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.) Cf. Nos. 133,134,135. 
