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3. Cast of a similar tile-front, from the original at
Athens (Michaelis, pi. 2, fig. 8).

4. Cast of lion's head from one of the angles of the
temple. Mr. Penrose (Athenian Architecture, p. 46)
describes the original of this or a similar lion's head as
worked out of a block which forms the springing stone
both of the cymatium and the corona of a pediment. In
the modelling of those lions' heads, and especially in the
treatment of the mane, the austere style, very much more
archaic than that of the other sculptures of the Parthenon,
is worthy of notice (Michaelis, pi. 2, fig. 9; Penrose,
Athenian Architecture, pi. 17, chap, vi., and pi. 1, chap,
viii.).

5-6. Casts from two fragments of alcroteria probably
from the Western pediment (Michaelis, pi. 2, fig. 10).

7. Marble fragment of a similar alzroterion (Inwood,
The Erechtheion, pi. 22, p. 130).

8. Marble fragment of moulding with painted mseander
pattern (Inwood, The Erechtheion, pi. 22, p. 129).

9. Marble fragment of moulding with painted mseander
pattern. Both these fragments appear to belong to the
moulding which surmounted either the frieze or the
peristyle (see Penrose, Athenian Architecture, chap, viii.,
pi. 23 ; Michaelis, pi. 2, fig. 17).

MISCELLANEOUS.

1. Fragment of marble shield supposed to be a rough
copy from the shield of the statue of Athena by Pheidias
within the Parthenon. Pliny states that the outside of
the shield was said to have been ornamented with the
representation of a battle between Greeks and Amazons,
to which Plutarch adds (Yit. Pericl. 31) that one of the
figures represented Pheidias himself as an old bald-headed
man raising a stone with both hands, while in another