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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
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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 mutilated ; 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. 249. A fragment or a head, cro\^T3ed 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 flowers and other 
ornaments, which are designed with the most perfect taste, and are 
chiselled with a degree of sharpness 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 ace presumed to be the feet of 
Minerva, from the west pediment 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 in¬ 
scription is to the memory of Asclepiodorus the son of Thraso, and 
Epicydes the son of Asclepiodorus ; both the deceased were natives of 
Olynthus, a city in Macedonia. (169.) 
No. 259. The upper part of a sepulchral stele, inscribed with the 
name of Euphrosynus. (155.) 
No. 260. A piece of Doric entablature, originally painted. (154.) 
No. 261. A Greek inscription, imperfect at the end, being a con¬ 
tract respecting the letting of some lands and salt pits by the people of 
Pirseus. Presented, in 1785, hy the Dilettanti Society. (289.) 
No. 262. An unknown bust. (100.) 
No. 263. A sepulchral solid urn, ornamented with reeds, and in¬ 
scribed with the name of Timophon, the son of Timostratus, and a native 
of Anagyrus, whose inhabitants were of the tribe of Erechtheis. (163.) 
No. 264. The capital of an Ionic column belonging to a temple of 
Diana, at Daphne, in the road to Eleusis. (295.) 
No. 265. A piece of the shaft of a small Ionic column, the lower 
part of which is fluted and reeded. (297.) 
No. 266. A sepulchral stele, with a very ancient inscription to the 
memory of Aristophosa and others. A peculiarity occurs in this in¬ 
scription, namely, that the letters vo are twice used for vtov. (214.) 
No. 267. A Greek inscription, engraved on two sides of a thick 
slab of marble. It is an inventory of the valuable articles which were 
kept in the Opisthodomos of the Parthenon at Athens. (305.) 
