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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
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Nos. 158, 158*, 159. Two bas-reliefs, and plaster cast of a third, 
which formed part of the frieze of a temple of the Ionic order (near 
the Propylaea at Athens), and dedicated to the Wingless Victory. 
The subject represented on them is a combat between the Greeks and 
Persians. (258, 257.) 
Nos. 159*, 160*, 161*. Three slabs from bas-reliefs frieze, which 
decorated the substructure of the same temple; they represent two 
females leading a bull, a third standing, and the fourth adjusting her 
sandal. 
Nos. 160, 161. Two bas-reliefs, from the same temple: the com¬ 
batants appear to be all Greeks. (259, 260.) 
No. 162. Fragment of a Greek inscription, very imperfect. (182.) 
No. 163. Ditto. (183.) 
No. 164. A bas-relief, representing a narrow upright vase with one 
handle: the form of this vase very much resembles that of the solid 
urns, so often used by the Greeks as sepulchral monuments. (276.) 
No. 165. A Greek inscription from Athens, signifying that certain 
gifts, which are specified, had been consecrated to some goddess, pro¬ 
bably Venus, by a female who held the office of lighter of the lamps, 
and interpreter of dreams, in the temple of the goddess. The name of 
this female, which was no doubt inserted at the beginning of the in¬ 
scription, is now lost. (88.) 
No. 166. An agonistic inscription, in Greek, consisting of the 
names of those who had conquered in the foot race of the stadium, 
and double stadium ; in w restling; in boxing; in the pancratium; and 
pentathlum. (93.) 
No. 167. A fragment of a Greek inscription : it consists of twenty 
lines of very ancient characters, and seems to be a part of a treatv. 
(286.) 
No. 167*. A very ancient Greek inscription, known by the title of 
the “ Marmor Atheniense.” It relates to a survey of some temple at 
Athens, supposed to be the Erectheum. Brought to England by Dr. 
Chandler , and presented to the British Museum , in 1785, by the DU 
lettanti Society. 
No. 168. A Greek inscription, imperfect, and very much defaced. 
It seems to be an inventory of valuable articles contained in some tem¬ 
ple. (277.) 
No. 169. A fleuron, from the temple of Ceres at Eleusis. (173.) 
No. 170. A capital of a pilaster. (174.) 
No. 171. A fragment of a very ancient Greek inscription from the. 
Acropolis : it contains an account of certain expenses defrayed by those 
to whom the care of the public games w r as confided. The name of the 
Archon, under w T hom the stone was engraved, is effaced. (159.) 
No. 172. A fragment of a decree; the beginning is wanting, and 
what remains is much mutilated. At the conclusion of the decree it 
is ordained that the people of Hierapytna in Crete shall affix to it the 
public seal. (157.) 
No. 173. A Greek inscription, wi-itten in two columns ; it contains 
a list of names arranged in the order of the tribes to which they respec¬ 
tively belonged. (92.) 
No. 174. A votive Greek inscription, dedicated by some sailors, as 
a mark of their gratitude, to the Apollo of Tarsus, (228.) 
