tended to contain the ashes of the deceased. It contains on it the representation of four figures: the two central, who are seated, are females joining hands (perhaps sisters); each is accompanied by a male figure, perhaps her husband. The names inscribed over the heads of each respectively are Mys, Philia, Metrodora, and Meles. No. 199* is a bronze cinerary urn, very richly wrought, of a semi-globular form, without any foot or pedestal. It was discovered in the marble vase, No. 199**, and contained a quantity of burnt bones, a small vase of alabaster, and a wreath of gold, when first disinterred. It was found on the side of the road which leads from the Peiraeus to the Salaminian ferry. There was no indication whose bones it contained. No. 2752 is a fragment of a cinerary urn, containing a representation of four figures standing. In the centre are two persons joining hands, over the heads of whom respectively are the names Demostrata and Callisto. A female stands behind each of the central figures in the attitude of affliction. 7. Inscribed Slabs. Of these, by far the most celebrated is No. 348, well known to scholars by the name of the POTIDEAN INSCRIPTION-a monument erected to the memory of the Athenians who fell in battle before the walls of Potidæa, in в.C. 432, Olymp. 87. 1. It was found in the plain of the Academy at Athens, and was brought to England by Lord Elgin. The first four lines are so effaced, that nothing can be made of them except by conjecture; and the endings of the remaining eight are also broken off, and have been restored conjecturally by Thiersch and Boeckh, who have successively edited this monument; the first at Munich, in 1816, and the second in his Corpus Inscript., No. I. p. 300. As the inscription is one of great interest, we give a transcript of it in the note at the bottom of the page. Historically, it has this additional value, that it records an 3 1 Engr. Vignette to Part IX. 2 Engr. Museum Marbles,' Part 1x. pl. xxxi. figs. 1, 2. 3 Potidean Inscription, as edited by Boeckh, Corp. Inscript. The portions within brackets are supplied conjecturally.— 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Αἰθὴρ μὲμ ψυχὰς ὑπεδέξατο, σω[ματα δε χθών] 6. event minutely described by Thucydides, lib. I. c. 62, and is curious besides palæographically, for reasons which we need not discuss here. The other sepulchral inscriptions are, that to a young man named Plutarchus, No. 236.-No. 274, engraved on a piece of entablature, and consisting of two lines in prose, and an epitaph in sixteen elegiac verses, inscribed to the memory of Publius Ælius Phædrus, son of Pistoteles of Sunium.-No. 345, one line in prose and two in verse, commemorative of Polyllus, and stating that Polystratus had raised a statue to the deceased.-No. 366, an elegiac inscription in ten verses, the two first and two last of which are elegiacs, and the rest hexameters, to the memory of a young lady of extraordinary beauty, named Tryphera, who died at the early age of twenty-five years.-No. 372, which has been arranged among the sepulchral stela, but which we think on the whole falls better under the class of sepulchral inscriptions. The monument consists of a Greek inscription of four lines and a half, part of which is written in prose and part in verse. It informs us that it was set up by a mother to the memory of her two sons, Diitrephes and Pericles (the former a soldier of Parium), and also to the memory of her daughter Agneis, and her brother Demophoon. VI. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. There are some objects which do not appear to fall satisfactorily under any of the general heads above enumerated, and which we have therefore determined to place by themselves under a class which we call Miscellaneous. The first is No. 337,' a small and somewhat elegant object which Visconti has called an Altar, but which it seems more probably is a Candelabrum. It is circular, and decorated with four female figures, who are dancing round it while one is playing upon the lyre. The dance may perhaps be of that kind called Emmeleia, all the evolutions of which were regulated by music accompanied by the voice. 6. Τῶν δε · Ποτιδαίας δ ̓ ἀμφὶ πύλας ἔ[πεσον] 7. Εχθρων δ' οἱ μὲν ἔχουσι τάφου μέρος, οἳ [δὲ φυγόντες] 8. Τεῖχος πιστοτάτην ἐλπιδ ̓ ἔθεντο [βίου] *Ανδρας μὲμ πόλις ἥδε ποθεῖ καὶ δ[ῆμος Ερεχθέως] Πρόσθε Ποτιδαίας οἳ θάνον ἐμ π[ρομάχοις] The second class of such objects are four Amphora, Nos. 238, 257, 292, 344,1 brought from Athens by the Earl of Elgin. The bodies of all these vessels taper towards the bottom, and must have been supported by stands. They were used not only for wine, but for other liquids. They vary considerably in their solid capacity, No. 257 holding about eight quarts, and No. 238 containing thirtyone quarts and one pint. The latter, though found at Athens, from the form of some letters upon the outer edge of the orifice, appears to have been the work of a Roman artist. To this class may be added a very curious sun-dial, No. 186.o Dr. Spon noticed this sun-dial in 1675, in the court of the church called Panagia Gorgopiko, and it was supposed to have been taken from the Acropolis, but without reason. It contains on the exterior of the two western faces the name of the mathematician. Phædrus, the son of Zoilus, of the Pæanian deme, who constructed it. From the shape of the letters it is supposed that the monument itself is not earlier than the time of the Emperor Severus. As in the case of the other contents of the Elgin Room, so also in that of the Inscriptions, it will be convenient to adopt certain subdivisions under which they may be grouped, and then to select one or more of the most important in each group for more especial commemoration. We shall adopt, therefore, the following subdivisions, placing however the Sigean inscription apart from the rest, and at the head of those which follow, as that which has obtained the greatest European celebrity :- 1. Those which relate to Temples. 2. Those which relate to Treaties. 3. Those which relate to the Athenian Tribes. 4. Those which relate to the Public Games. 5. Those containing Decrees. 6. Miscellaneous Fragments. To take first the Sigean Inscription : The Sigean inscription, No. 107, was procured by Lord Elgin, when ambassador at Constantinople, from the porch of a village church on the promontory of Sigeum. It had been published pre Engr. 'Museum Marbles,' Part 1x. pl. xlii. figs. 1, 2, 3, 4. 2 Ibid., pl. xliii. viously by Chishull and Chandler, and subsequently with a learned Commentary by the late Rev. Hugh James Rose, in his 'Inscriptiones Græcæ.' It is written in the most ancient Grecian letters, and in the style called Boustrophedon, that is, the lines follow each other from left to right and from right to left alternately, as an ox passes from one furrow to another. The purport of the inscription is to record the presentation of three vessels, a cup, a saucer or stand, and a strainer, for the use of the Prytaneion at Sigeum. The name of the donor was Phanodicus, son of Hermocrates, a native of Proconnesus. To proceed with the other inscriptions according to the proposed order. 1. Inscriptions which relate to Temples. No. 165 is an inscription stating that certain gifts had been consecrated to a goddess, probably Aphrodite, by a female who held the office of lighter of lamps and interpreter of dreams in the temple of that Goddess. No. 167* is a very ancient inscription, known by the name of the "Marmor Atheniense," relating to a survey of some temple, probably the Erectheion. Nos. 267, 276, 282 contain inventories of the valuable articles deposited in the Opisthodomos of the Parthenon, which appears to have served as a “Mont de Piété." The characters on the second, No. 276, are anterior to the archonship of Eucleides, B.C. 403. Nos. 168, 185, 223, 269, 379 are also, probably, inventories, though the name of the temple in which the treasures were preserved is not specified. 2. Inscriptions which relate to Treaties. No. 206 is a fragment in very ancient characters, relating to a treaty made between the Athenians and the inhabitants of Rhegium, in Magna Græcia, in the archonship of Apseudes, B.C. 433. Thucydides, iii. c. 86, mentions a fleet sent by the Athenians to aid the people of Rhegium on the ground that they were of lonian origin. No. 346 refers to a treaty between the Athenians and Erythræans, conjectured to have been as early as B.C. 477. No. 377 is a treaty between Orchomenos in Boeotia and Elatæa in Phocis, in the Æolic dialect of Boeotia, imperfect, but containing fifty lines. The inscription appears to record three separate deeds: the two first, authentications of payments from the treasurers of Orchomenos; the third, the renewal of a treaty of pasturage granted by the citizens of Elatea. No. 167, which is very imperfect, appears to relate to a treaty. 3. Inscriptions which relate to the Athenian Tribes. No. 162 is a fragment containing a list of citizens at Athens, with the names of the Demi to which they were attached. No. 173 is a similar list, conjectured by Visconti to be that of the warriors who lost their lives under the walls of Delium in Boeotia B.C. 424, but by Osann to be a record of those who fell at Potidæa. No. 285 is a fragment containing a list of Athenian citizens belonging to twelve Demi-Sunium, Ionidæ, Alopece, Pallene, Halæ, Ericea, Colonus, Sphettus, Ceriadæ, Thoricus, Hephæsti, and Bate. 4. Inscriptions which relate to the Public Games (agonistic). No. 166 is an inscription recording the names of those who had conquered in the foot-race of the Stadium and double Stadium, in wrestling, boxing, the pancratium, and the pentathla. No. 171 is a fragment of an ancient inscription from the Acropolis, containing an account of the expenses defrayed by the triumvirs of the public spectacles. The name of the archon is effaced, but Visconti conjectures that its date is B.C. 424. No. 335 ought perhaps to be placed under the head of bas-reliefs, as there is the representation of a half-draped figure upon it. It bears, however, an agonistic inscription, with the names of some of the superintendents of the gymnasia. 5. Inscriptions relating to Decrees. No. 172 is a fragment of a decree, imperfect at the top, but bearing at its conclusion an order that the people of Hierapytna, in Crete, should affix to it the public seal. No. 187 is a decree of the people of Athens in honour of Hosacharus, the son of Agathon, a Macedonian. It was passed in the archonship of Nicodorus, in the third year of the 116th Olymp., B.C. 344. No. 203 is a decree of the people of Tenos in honour of their benefactor Ammonius. It is ordered to be set up in the Temple of Poseidon and Amphitrite. composed of No. 347 is No. 235 is a decree made by a society, apparently musicians, in honour of Dionysus and Antoninus Pius. a fragment of a decree of the Athenians, engraven on a large piece of marble, in honour of Spartacus IV., son of Eumelus, King of Bosphorus. Nos., 363, 364 are fragments of public acts of the Athenians, the former relating to the people of Athens and My |