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 THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS. 177 noble fragment of the upper part of a head. Placed as it is on a bare shelf below the sight line, it seems comparatively valueless and neglected, but seen in a photograph the great style of the Phidean tradition shines out. Our Museum is so superb, and all that is done for us there is so liberal that it almost appears Fig. 176. — Part of Sculptured Frieze, Basss. like insolence to have any individual views on such points, but I do feel that this fragment would be better shown in almost any museum in the world. Like the Ephesus fragment (p. 32) it should be placed in a glass wall-case.* It would form a fine
 * See Athen. Mitth., 1890, p. 64.