British Museum <London> [Editor]: Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles (Band 1) (London, 1833)

8 THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

only other sum mentioned as a money price, was in
the evidence of the Earl of Aberdeen, who named

Brought forward . . . £3450
Fragments of about ten draped trunks, from the

pediments of the Parthenon, most of which

appear to be of the time of Hadrian , . , 2000
Fourteen Metopes, of various degrees of. merit,.

all corroded, and mostly much mutilated , 7000
Twelve pieces of the frieze of the Cell, with

parts entire . .......'. , * 3600

About thirty-five more, completely ruined . . 1400
Three capitals, and part of a column, from the

same temple .......... 500

Plaster casts from ditto, and other temples . . 2500

A granite Scarabseus . . . . . . . ' . . 300

A white marble Soros, complete and entire,but

coarse . . , . > . . . <• . t . 500

Various shafts and blocks of marble .... 350

Ditto of porphyry.....' .' . ." . . 350

Various fragments of statuary and relief . • . 500

Various ditto of architecture ...... 300

Caryatis from the Propylsea, much.injured , . 200

Nine broken marble urns . » . . . . . 450

One wrought brass ditto . . . ... . . 150

One inscribed earthen ditto ...... 150

Inscriptions, &c........... 300

Medals............. 1000

£25,000
Mr. William Richahd Hamilton's Valuation.

"Theseus . . , .... . . . * £4000

Ilissus...........4000

Female group . ;......• 4000

Ditto...........4000

Iris . %..........2000

Three horses' heads....... ' 2000

.. Torso of Neptune. . . . • . • • 500
Remainder of the pediment . ... 2000

. . Pediment . * 22,500

. . Carried forward . . . £22,500