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 THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS. 185 where the dead rest. They are "young maidens, clad in the thinnest garments, sailing by the aid of their mantles over sea and shore, indicated by a fish, a dolphin, a water- fowl, a crab, and a shell ; they hover over the water without touching it, as is especially to be seen by the swimming water-fowl beneath one of them." * The carrying off of the daughters of Leukippos by the Dioscuri on the acroteria symbolises death. PRIENE. Many fragments of the temple of Athena are gathered in the British Museum. It was first examined by a British expedition in 1768, and there is in the Print Room an exquisite drawing by Pars, made at that time, of the ruins on a height above a wide plain, through which winds the Meander, and some of the original memoranda are preserved in the '.ANEG)BfcE-T-DNNA'QN i.v Greek Department. It. Yg. i8s.-Priene, Dedication Stone, with was excavated so lately name of Alexander, as 1870, and the stones were brought to England at the cost of Mr Ruskin. There are capitals of the order and of the anta;, one of which is set up in the Inscription Hall above a large part of one of the antae. There are also portions of the cornice and gutter, of the raking cornice, and of the lacunars. Three or four small fragments are also in the Louvre, the material result, I suppose, of the explora- tion of Rayet and Thomas, which was described in an excellent volume. Still more lately, and, it must be admitted, more thoroughly, it has been explored by a German expedition. Many char- acteristic parts have been set up in the Pergamon Museum at Berlin, and it has been described by Wiegand. These inquiries have in much modified our knowledge of the order. is flying over sea, see the dolphin and sea under it."
 * A note of my own, made before I had read this, reads, " One at least