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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
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No. 107. The celebrated Sigean inscription, first published by 
Chishull, in his “ Antiquitates Asiaticse,” and afterwards more cor¬ 
rectly by Chandler in his “ Inscriptiones Antiquse.” It. is written in 
the most ancient Greek characters, and in the bustropkedon manner, 
that is to say, the lines follow each other in the same direction as the 
ox passes from one furrow to another in ploughing. The purport of 
the inscription is to record the presentation of three vessels, namely, a 
cup, a saucer or stand, and a strainer, for the use of the Prytaneum, or 
hall of justice, of the Sigeans. t The name of the donor was Phanodi- 
cus, the son of Hermocrates, and a native of Proconnesus. (199.) 
No. 108. A piece of the ceiling of the temple of Erechtheus at 
Athens. (299.) 
No. 109. The lower part of a female statue covered with drapery. 
(299*.) 
No. 110. A piece of the shaft of an Ionic column, belonging to the 
temple of Erechtheus at Athens. (312.) 
No. 111. A colossal statue of Bacchus, from the choragic monu¬ 
ment of Thrasyllus, at Athens. It is a sitting figure covered with the 
skin of a lion, and with a broad belt round the waist; it was originally 
placed on the summit of the edifice, at a height rather exceeding twen¬ 
ty-seven feet. (205.) 
No. 112. The capital, and a piece of the shaft of one of the Doric 
columns of the Parthenon. (207.) 
No. 113. An imperfect statue of a youth; of the size of life, and 
of the most exquisite workmanship. (306.) 
No. 114. A piece of the shaft of a column, belonging to the temple 
of Erechtheus at Athens. (304.) 
Nos. 115, 116, 117, are now 199*, 199**, 199***. 
No. 118. Blank . 
No. 119 is now 113. 
Nos. 120, 121, are now 187*, 187**. 
No. 122. A sepulchral solid urn, having three figures in bas-relief 
on the front. The first of these is a warrior with a helmet and a shield, 
who is joining hands with an elderly man dressed in a long tunic; the 
third figure is a female. The inscription underneath these figures pro¬ 
bably contained the names of the parties, but is too mutilated to admit 
of being deciphered. (167.) 
No. 123. A sepulchral column, inscribed with the name of Anaxi- 
crates, an Athenian, the son of Dexiochus; beneath the inscription is the 
representation of a sepulchral urn, executed in very low relief. (240.) 
No. 124. Another monumental urn, of the same kind, inscribed 
with the name of Phsedimus of Naucratis. (A. 51.) 
No. 125. The capital of an Ionic column, from the portico of the 
Erechtheium, at Athens. The building to which this singularly beau¬ 
tiful piece of architecture belonged, was a double temple dedicated to 
Minerva Polias and Pandrosus. (A. 47.) 
Nos. 126, 127. A portion of the shaft, and the base, of the same 
column. (A. 48, 49.) 
No. 128. An architectural statue, it was one of the Caryatides 
which supported the roof under which the olive tree of Minerva was 
sheltered in the temple of Pandrosus at Athens. (A. 42.) 
