202 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES, [ELGIN 
is curiously plaited, we may fix the sculpture to about the 
time of Antoninus Pius. (123.) 
No. 242. A head of the bearded Hercules. (120.) 
No. 243. A head of the bearded Hercules, similar to 
the last, but of larger dimensions. ( 117 -) 
No. 244. A large head. (266.) 
No. 245. A female torso, covered with drapery. (296.) 
No. 246. A large head. (263.) 
No. 247. An unknown bearded head, very much muti¬ 
lated : it is larger than life, and is crowned with a very 
thick cord-shaped diadem. (119.) 
No. 248. The head of a middle-aged man, with a conical 
bonnet; it appears to have had very little beard, and is 
most probably the head of a mariner. (116.) 
No. 240. A fragment of a head, crowned with vine 
leaves : it appears to have been executed at a declining 
period of the arts. (121.) 
No. 250. An unknown female head, the hair of which 
is confined within a close elegantly formed cap. The same 
style of head-dress is observable on some of the silver coins 
of Corinth. (114.) 
No. 251. The head of a laughing figure, executed in the 
early hard style of Greek sculpture. (115.) 
No. 252—255. Four pieces of the frieze from the 
temple of Erechtheus at Athens ; they are enriched with 
fiowers and other ornaments, which are designed with the 
most perfect taste, and are chiselled with a degree of sharp¬ 
ness and precision truly admirable. (127—130.) 
No. 256. The base on which a statue has stood; the 
feet, which still remain, are very wide apart, and shew that 
the figure must have been in powerful action; they are 
presumed to be the feet of Minerva, from the west pedi¬ 
ment of the Parthenon. See No. 102. (201.) 
No. 257. An amphora. (171.) 
No. 258. The upper part of a sepulchral stele, having 
the inscription, as well as the arabesque ornament on the 
summit, perfect. The inscription is to the memory of 
Asclepiodorus the son of Thraso, and Epicydes the son of 
Asclepiodorus; both the deceased were natives of Olyn- 
thus, a city in Macedonia. (169.) 
No. 259. The upper part of a sepulchral stele, inscribed 
with the name of Euphrosynus. (155.) 
