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GREEK GALLERIES. [PHIGAL. SALOON. 
No. 41. Large fragment of a bas-relief, No. 166, belongs to the 
Elgin collection: it represents Hercules preparing to strike Diomed, 
king of Thrace, whom he has already knocked down, and is holding by 
the hair of his head. 
No. 4*2. Small statue of Hercules, wanting the head, arms, and 
feet; the paws of the lion’s skin, and part of a child, probably 
Telephus, are seen below. From the coast of Laconia. Presented 
by Colonel LeoLe, 1838. 
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. 
No. 46. Small inscriptions dedicated to the Favourable Winds. 
No. 47. Head of Jupiter, the Thunderer, of coarse workmanship, 
dedicated by a person named Agesiiaus. From Doryleeum in 
Phrygia. 
No. 48. Sepulchral inscription of the tomb of Hermes and Thoiodote, 
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. Leake. 
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-rilievo, from Delos. The lower 
part of the body has been ornamented with metal work. 
Several other sculptures and inscriptions, all from different parts of 
Greece and the Greek colonies, are deposited round the sides of the 
room and against the pilasters; but being as yet unarranged, and 
likely to be shortly removed, they are not here particularly described. 
At the sides of the Room, over the Phigaleian frieze, are two pedi¬ 
ments, of precisely the same form and dimensions as those which deco¬ 
rated the eastern and western ends of a Temple, perhaps that of Jupiter 
Panhellenius, 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 posi¬ 
tion, 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 
place which they occupied, Mr. Cockerell composed the groups very 
