194 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ELGIN 
No. 118. A piece of the shaft of a column, belonging to 
the temple of Erechtheus at Athens. (303.) 
No. 119. An imperfect statue of a youth; it is of 
the size of life, and of the most exquisite workman¬ 
ship. (306.) 
No. 120. Part of the capital of an Ionic column. (306*.) 
No. 121. A circular altar, brought from the island of 
Delos. It is ornamented with the heads of bulls, from which 
festoons of fruit and dowers are suspended. (307-) 
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 probably contained 
the names of the parties, but is too mutilated to admit of 
being decvphered. (167.) 
No. 123. A sepulchral column, inscribed with the name 
of Anaxicrates, 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 por¬ 
tico of the Erechtheium, at Athens. The building to which 
this singularly beautiful piece of architecture belonged ! 
was a double temple dedicated to Minerva Polias and Pan- 
drosus. (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 is 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.) 
No. 129. A piece of the shaft of an Ionic column. (A. 43.) 
No. 130. A capital of a Doric column, from the Pro- 
pylasa, at Athens. (206.) 
No. 131. A part of a Doric entablature, from the Pro- 
pylsea at Athens. (308.) 
No. 132. A solid monumental urn, or cenotaph, with a 
bas-relief in front, not inscribed. (A. 50.) 
No. 133. The capital of an Ionic column belonging to a 
