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Antiquities. 
without Wings, who was represented in this manner by 
the Athenians, to intimate that they held her gifts in 
perpetuity, and that she could not desert them. This 
goddess was represented driving the car of Minerva, on 
the west pediment; the car approached Minerva, as if 
to receive her into it, after her successful contest with 
Neptune. (69.) 
No. 106. A fragment of a group which originally 
consisted of Latona with her two children, Apollo and 
Diana. This group was placed on the right side of the 
west pediment. All that remains in the fragment before 
us, is the lap of Latona, with a small portion of the 
figure of the infant Apollo. (73.) 
No. 107. The celebrated Sigean inscription, first 
published by Chishull, in his “ Antiquitates Asiaticse,” 
and afterwards more correctly by Chandler in his 4 4 In- 
scriptiones Antiquse.” It is written in the most ancient 
Greek characters, and in the bustrophedon manner, 
that is to say, the lines follow each other in the same 
direction as the ox passes from one furrow to another 
in ploughing. The purport of the inscription is to re¬ 
cord the presentation of three vessels, namely, a cup, 
a saucer or stand, and a strainer, for the use of the 
Prytaneum, or hall of justice, of the Sigeans. The 
name of the donor was Phanodicus, the son of Hermo- 
crates, and a native of Proconnesus. (199.) 
No. 108. A piece of the ceiling of the temple of 
Erechtheus at Athens. (299.) 
No. 109. The lower part of a female statue covered 
with drapery. (299*.) 
No. 110. A piece of the shaft of an Ionic column, 
belonging to the temple of Erechtheus at Athens 
(812.) 
No. 111. A colossal statue of Bacchus, from the 
choragic monument of Thrasyllus, at Athens. It is a 
sitting figure covered with the skin of a lion, and with 
a broad belt round the waist; it was originally placed 
on the summit of the edifice, at a height rather exceed¬ 
ing twenty-seven feet. (205.) 
No. 112. 
