Part of band for supporting the beams of the ceiling in the central
hall of the Propylaea. There are considerable remains of the painted
mouldings.--_Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 7-1/4 inches; length, 3 feet
10-1/2 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 131 (308). Stuart, II., ch. V., pl.
8, fig. 1; Bohn, _Die Propyläen_, pl. 12, fig. 6.
MISCELLANEOUS ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS.
[Sidenote: =436.=]
Capital of one of the antae from the small Ionic temple near the
Ilissos seen by Stuart, but destroyed since his time in 1780.--_Elgin
Coll._
Height, 1 foot 1/8 inch; breadth, 2 feet 1/2 inch. _Synopsis_,
No. 170 (174). Stuart, I., ch. II., pl. 8, fig. 1. See also Leake,
_Topography of Athens_, 2nd ed., p. 250.
[Sidenote: =437.=]
Moulding with anthemion, plait, maeander, and leaf, bead and reel
patterns. Found near the south-east _anta_ of the Erechtheion.
--_Inwood Coll._
Height, 8-1/4 inches; breadth, 6-3/4 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 407.
Inwood, _Erechtheion_, pl. 26, p. 138.
[Sidenote: =438.=]
Antefixal ornament or acroterion from the temple of Demeter at
Eleusis. For a similar ornament see Kinnard in Stuart's _Antiquities
of Athens_, 2nd ed., iii., pl. 1, p. 53.--_Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 3 feet 7-1/2 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 169
(173); Laborde, _Le Parthénon_, pl. 27.
[Sidenote: =439.=]
Ornament of roof-tile, _kalypter anthemotos_. Purchased by Inwood at
Athens.--_Inwood Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 8-3/4 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 417.
Inwood, _Erechtheion_, pl. 28, fig. 3, p. 144.
[Sidenote: =440.=]
Ornament of roof-tile. Probably purchased by Inwood at
Athens.--_Inwood Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 10-3/4 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 412.
Inwood, _Erechtheion_, pl. 28, fig. 2, p. 144.
[Sidenote: =441.=]
Ornament of roof-tile, found "on the gable of a small Greek church,
that appears to have been on the site of a temple" "in the gardens at
Athens, beyond Mount Anchesmus."--_Inwood Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 8-1/2 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 411.
Inwood, _Erechtheion_, pl. 23, p. 131.
[Sidenote: =442.=]
Ornament of roof-tile found built into a modern house near the
Choragic Monument of Lysicrates.--_Inwood Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 11 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 413. Inwood,
_Erechtheion_, pl. 28, fig. 5, p. 144.
[Sidenote: =443.=]
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