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it under the protection of Minerva ; the marble on which this inscrip¬ 
tion is cut formed a part of the base on which the statue stood. (292.) 
No. 346. A Greek inscription, relating to the Erythrseans: the 
characters are very ancient. (288.) 
No. 347. A fragment of a decree of the Athenians, engraved on a 
very large piece of marble. So much has been broken away from this in¬ 
scription, that the precise object of it is not easily collected: it is ordained, 
however, that the decree shall be fixed up in the Acropolis. (281.) 
No. 348. A very ancient Greek inscription, which has served as an 
epitaph on the tomb of the Athenian warriors killed at Potidsea. This 
inscription, which originally consisted of twelve elegiac verses, has suf¬ 
fered from the injuries of time. (290.) 
No. 349. Fragment of a figure. (145.) 
No. 350. Fragment of a Greek inscription, very imperfect. (195.) 
No. 351. A sepulchral stele, with an ornament of flowers on the 
summit. It is inscribed with the names of Hippocrates and Baucis. (175.) 
Nos. 352—360. Casts in plaster of the frieze of the Choragic 
Monument of Lysicrates, commonly called the Lanthorn of Demos¬ 
thenes. The subject of this frieze is the story of Bacchus and the 
Tyrrhenian pirates. (A. 89, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90.) 
No. 36L A fragment of a bas-relief, representing an elderly man 
before one of the gods, probably Bacchus, who appears to hold a vase 
in his right hand. (84.) 
No. 362. A fragment of a decree of the people of Tenos, in honour 
of some benefactor, whose name is not preserved on the marble. (232.) 
No. 363. A fragment of a public act relating to the people of 
Athens and Myrina. (234.) 
No. 364. A fragment of a public act of the Athenians ; it consists 
of twenty-one imperfect lines, and seems to relate to the repair of the 
pavements and roads in the neighbourhood of Athens. (233.) 
No. 365. An architectural fragment, which has formed one of the 
ornaments of a roof. (243.) 
No. 366. A sepulchral Greek inscription in ten verses, of which the 
first two and the last two are in the elegiac measure, and the rest are 
hexameters. The inscription is in memory of a young lady of extra¬ 
ordinary beauty, named Tryphera, who died at the early age of 25 
years. (152.) 
No. 367. An architectural fragment, similar to No. 365. (254.) 
No. 368. A Greek inscription relating to Oropus. Presented , in 
1820, by John P. Gandy Peering , Esq. (106*.) 
Nos. 369, 370. Fragments of Greek inscriptions, very imperfect. 
(191, 196.) 
No. 371. A fragment of a bas-relief, representing Minerva placing 
a crown upon a person’s head. (89.) 
No. 372. A sepulchral stele with a Greek inscription, consisting of 
four lines and a half, part of which is written in prose and part in verse. 
The inscription informs us that the monument was erected by a mother 
to the memory of her two sons, Diitrephes and Pericles, the former of 
whom was a soldier of Parium ; and also to the memory of her daugh¬ 
ter, whose name was Agnes, and that of her brother, Demophoon, who 
was a soldier of Parium. (172.) 
No. 373. A sepulchral stele. The bas-relief in front, the lower 
