Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot; breadth, 9½ inches. Synopsis, No. 404, where it is incorrectly described as a capital from the temple of Nikè Apteros. Inwood, Erechtheion, pl. 21.
445. Volute of Ionic capital, which, according to Inwood (p. 127) was found in a wall below the north side of the Acropolis at Athens. In the eye of this volute a rose is sculptured in relief. In the capitals of the Erechtheion there was a similar rose of bronze gilt, for which a recess is carved in the marble.—Inwood Coll.
Pentelic marble; height, 7¾ inches; breadth, 9 inches. Synopsis, No. 410. Inwood, Erechtheion, pl. 20; Bötticher, Tektonik, text, p. 299.
446. Fragment of the shaft of a column which was fluted with twenty-four flutes, the diameter being about two feet two inches. The dimensions differ from those of the columns of the Erechtheion.—Greece. Presented by W. R. Hamilton, Esq.
Marble; height, 1 foot 7 inches; width, 1 foot 6 inches.
447. Capital of Corinthian column, from one of the porches of the building at Athens, commonly known as the Tower of the Winds, or more correctly as the Horologium of Andronicus Cyrrhestes (built probably in the 2nd century b.c.).—Formerly in the Elgin Collection.
Marble; height, 1 foot 4½ inches. Stuart, I., chap. III., pl. 7.
448. Unfinished Ionic base.—Formerly in the Elgin Collection.
Marble; height, 9 inches; diameter, 1 foot 10¾ inches.