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his gratitude to Jupiter Hypsistos. No. 213 is a prayer in behalf of 
Euphrosynus. (247, 245, 249, 252, 241, 251, 248, 246, 253, 250.) 
Nos. 219, 220. Two pieces of the architrave belonging to the 
temple of Erechtheus at Athens. (291, 85.) 
No. 221. A fragment of a boy, holding a bird under his arm, and 
feeding it. (81.) 
No. 222. A sepulchral column, inscribed with the name of Botry- 
chus, son of Euphanus, and a native of Heraclea. (278.) 
On shelf 4 are several antefixal ornaments from Athens; I. 31 is. 
supposed to come from the temple of Venus. 
Underneath shelf 4 are— 
A fine antefixal ornament from a stele. 
I. 21. A plain tablet inscribed, “From Athens, Choerippes.”’ 
No. 223. A Greek inscription, imperfect, engraved in very small 
characters: it is an enumeration of the sacred dresses which belonged 
to some temple. (283.) 
No. 224. A fragment of a bas-relief, representing the fore legs 
and part of the body of a bull. (160.) 
No. 225. Fragment of a Greek inscription ; very imperfect. (ISO.) 
No. 226. A fragment of a Greek inscription; it is the latter part 
of a decree in honour of a person who had deserved well of some 
particular city. It is directed, as in the inscription No. 203, that the 
decree shall be engraved on marble, and placed in the temple of Neptune 
and Amphitrite. (230.) 
No. 227. A small figure of Telesphorus, completely enveloped in 
a cloak; it wants the head. (78.) 
No. 228. A sepulchral column, with an inscription to the memory 
of Biottus, who was the son of Philoxenus, and a native of Diradium.- 
(215.) 
No. 229. A sepulchral stele, with a bas-relief, representing a man 
clothed in a tunic. The inscription over this figure records the name 
of Erasippus, who was the son of Callinicus, and a native of CEum in 
Attica. (212.) 
No. 230. A solid sepulchral urn, with a bas-relief, representing 
five figures, executed in a singularly rude style. The first of these* 
figures is a boy carrying a large circular shield, the second is a warrior 
joining hands with a third person, who is seated before him : the group 
is completed by the introduction of a child, and of a female whose 
attitude evinces a dejected state of mind. Over the warrior is the 
name of Sosippus, in Greek letters. (239.) 
No. 231. The capital of an Ionic column, from the temple of 
Diana, at Daphne. (SO.) 
No. 232. The upper part of the shaft of a small Ionic column.. 
(310.) 
No. 233. The capital of a Corinthian column. (308*.) 
No. 234. A fragment of a Greek inscription ; it is too imperfect 
to admit of a full explanation, but it seems to have been in honour of 
a person who had distinguished himself on some occasion by great 
humanity. (170.) 
No. 235. A fragment of a decree made by a society which is 
distinguished by a number of epithets, among which are two derived 
