A DESCRIPTION OF THE GENERAL VIEW OF ATHENS, ETC.
We every where meet here with fragments of ancient Marbles, pieces of ruined Sculptures,
and of architectural Ornaments; many have imperfect inscriptions on them ; and there are some few,
on which the inscriptions are entire. Six of these mutilated pieces, which have no relation to each
other, compose the Ornament, introduced in the plate of vignettes. Plate II. Fig. 1. The principal
one is part of an inscription, on which were represented the prizes that had been gained in various
athletic games by an Athenian of Rhamnus. The name of this champion is lost, but the Isthmian and
rjart of the Nemean crown is remaining, with the shield which rewarded the victor at Argos, and the
iar of oil which was the prize in the Panathenean games. The Ornament in Plate II. Fig. 2, is copied
from a fragment3 in the monastery of St. Spiridion, at the Pireus. The inscription on it has been
already published by the learned Corsini, from a manuscript copy, in which there are two errors that,
with his usual perspicacity, he has discovered and happily corrected6.

» This ornament is the elevation of the front of a marble chair, in Plate II. Fig. A. a., B. b., and C. and D. The first is from a
tl sides of which are introduced a very frequent chimerical tetradrachm of silver, hearing a fine head of Minerva Victrix
obiect of Greek decoration, namely, a lion's head supported by a AQHNA NIKH<DOPOi;. Fig. B. b. is from a brass coin^ and re-
ferine leo- and winged at the sides. Marble chairs were often presents a warrior on a ship bearing a trophy and extending a
diuncts°of antique temples, as at the temple of Themis, at wreath or crown, on the occasion of an Athenian naval victory.
Rhamnus This antique is disfigured by a Roman sepulchral The medals in the vignette of the dedication, contiguous to the
inscription, and the heads of the lions are now destroyed, [ed.] medallic portrait of our late venerated sovereign Gbohqb III.,
b The vignettes to the title page and dedication, not described represent Minerva on the one hand planting the olive, on the
by Stuart, are from medals of Athens, which are also introduced other wielding the dreaded kepaynos. [_ed.]

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