122 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ELGIN 
in excavating for a building in Mercury Street, Athens, between the 
temple of Theseus and the ancient gate of the Peloponnesus. 
No. 107. The celebrated Sigean inscription, first published by 
Chishull, in his “ Antiquitates Asiaticae,” and afterwards more cor¬ 
rectly by Chandler in his “ Inscriptiones Antiquae.” Ir is written in 
the most ancient Greek characters, and in the boustrophedmi 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, at Sigeum. The name of the donor 
was Phanodieus, the son of Hermocrates, and a native of Procon- 
nesus. (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 draperv. 
(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, b c. 320. 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 twenty-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. ) 
No. 115. Part of the jamb of a door, from the eastern side of the 
same temple. 
No. 116. Fragment of a leaf moulding, from the north side of the 
same temple. 
No. 1 17. Part of one of the coffers of the same temple. 
No. 118. Egg and tongue moulding, from the portico under the 
ceiling. These fragments are from the collection of the late J. In wood, 
Esq. For other fragments from the same temple, see Nos. 125— 
127, 219—228. 
No. 119 is now r 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.) 
