Heads of Pelops and Hippodamia? Heroic heads of colossal male and female figures, turned to the right. The female head is in low relief, and wears a diadem, and a veil falling over the back of the head. Compare the heads in a terracotta relief in the British Museum (_Ancient Terracottas in B. M._, pl. 19, No. 34). The male head is almost worked in the round and wears a close-fitting helmet. Some drapery passes over the left shoulder. These two heads have long been called Pelops and Hippodamia, and it is very likely that the figures belonged to a chariot group. But they may well be the somewhat idealized portraits of a Sicilian despot, and his consort. _Found in the sea near Girgenti (Agrigentum)._--_Townley Coll._ Greek marble, perhaps Parian; height, 1 foot 5-1/4 inches; width, 1 foot 4 inches. _Mus. Marbles_, X., pl. 32; Ellis, _Townley Gallery_, II., p. 153. [Sidenote: =556.=] Head of Odysseus? Male head, with curling hair and short beard, wearing a peaked cap (_pileus_). The surface is much decayed, and most of the chin and mouth is broken away. This head may be from a sepulchral monument.--_Elgin Coll._ Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 1/2 inch. _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 40, fig. 3; Ellis, _Elgin Marbles_, II., p. 119. [Sidenote: =557.=] Fragment from the back of a head. The hair is drawn to a knot at the back of the head, and is confined by two bands, crossing one another. Pentelic marble; height, 10-1/2 inches. [Sidenote: =558.=] Head of a maiden, wearing a closely-fitting cap. The style is characteristic of the fifth century.--_Athens?_ _Elgin Coll._ Pentelic marble; height, 9 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 239 (122). [Sidenote: =559.=] Heroic head of a youth, inclined slightly to his left. The hair is very slightly indicated, and the back of the head is worked away, as if for a bronze helmet.--_Obtained in Greece by the fourth Earl of Aberdeen in 1803, and presented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen in 1861._ Coarse-grained marble; height, 11 inches. The head was found wearing a bronze helmet, which, however, did not fit, and has been removed. [Sidenote: =560.=] Cast of marble owl. L. Ross (_Annali dell' Inst._, 1841, pl. C., p. 25), supposes that this owl was a votive offering which once surmounted a column found near it, on which is inscribed the name of Timotheos of the deme Anaphlystos. The lower part of the body, which is broken away, has lately been found. The feathers of the wings are set in formal rows, and the treatment throughout is characterised by an archaic severity, as has been remarked by Ross. The feathers have probably been painted.--_Found on the Athenian Acropolis between the Propylaea and the Parthenon._ The original, of Pentelic marble, is in the Acropolis Museum, at Athens; height, 2 feet 2 inches. Ross, _Arch. Aufsätze_, I., pl. 14, fig. 3, p. 205; _Elgin Room Guide_, II., No. G. 7; Wolters, No. 111; Le Bas, _Mon. Fig._, pl. 62, fig. 3. GREEK RELIEFS.