196 j GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ELGIN 
with four female figures^ one of which is playing on the 
lyre^ and the others^, with joined hands, are leading the 
dance. (124.) 
Nos. 338^5 339. Fragments of colossal statues. (265^, 
269.) 
No. 340. A part of a colossal foot, probably belonging 
to a figure in one of the pediments of the Parthenon. (244.) 
No. 341. The left knee of a colossal statue of very 
fine work : it has probably belonged to a figure in one of 
the pediments of the Parthenon. (256.) 
No. 342. Fragment of a statue. (268.) 
No. 343. Ditto. (144.) 
No. 344. An amphora. (176.) 
No. 345. A funeral inscription to the memory of Po- 
lyllus; it consists of one line in prose, and two in verse. 
The line in prose gives us only the name and titles of 
Polyllus, and the verses intimate that Polystratus had 
erected a statue to the deceased, and had placed it under 
the protection of Minerva ,* the marble on which this in¬ 
scription is cut formed a part of the base on which the 
statue stood. (292.) 
No. 346. A Greek inscription, relating to the Eryth- 
raeans : the characters are very ancient. (288.) 
No. 347* A fragment of a decree of the Athenians, en¬ 
graved on a very large piece of marble. So much has 
been broken away from this inscription, 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 war¬ 
riors killed at Potidsea. This inscription, which originally 
consisted of twelve elegiac verses, has suflfered from the in¬ 
juries of time. (290.) 
No. 349. Fragment of a figure. (145.) 
No. 350. Fragment of a Greek inscription, very im¬ 
perfect. (195.) 
No. 351. A sepulchral stMe, 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 Demosthenes. The subject of this frieze is 
