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FIFTH OENTUKY FKAGMENTS. 291hair which fall down on the back still remains.Elgin Coll.Pentelic marble ; height, 1 foot 3 inches. Synopsis, No. 281 (146) ;Elgin Eoom Guide, II., No. F. 15.553. Left breast and part of left side of female figure wearinga chiton girt at the waist. Elgin Coll.Pentelic marble ; height, 1 foot 3J inches. Synopsis, No. 277 (147).Elgin Boom Guide, II., No. F. 16.554. Upper part of the torso of a female figure movingquickly to the left, with the arms raised. She wears asleeveless chiton which appears to have been unsewn(schistos) down the right side. The shoulders are broken,but there are remains of large dowel holes as if for the insertionof wings, and the figure is not unlike the Victorieson the balustrade of the temple of Nike.Elgin Coll.Pentelic marble ; height, 1 foot. Synopsis, No. 321 (79).555. Heads of Pelops and Hippodamia ? Heroic heads ofcolossal male and female figures, turned to the right. Thefemale head isin low relief, and wears a diadem, and aveil falling over the back of the head. Compare theheads in a terracotta relief in the British Museum(^Ancient Terracottas in B. M., pi. 19, No. 34). The malehead is almost worked in the round and wears a closefittinghelmet. Some drapery passes over the leftshoulder. These two heads have long been called Pelopsand Hippodamia, and it is very likely that the figuresbelonged to a chariot group. But they may well be thesomewhat idealized portraits of a Sicilian despot, and hisconsort. Found in the sea near Girgenti (^Agrigentum).—Townley Coll.Greek marble, perhaps Parian ; height, 1 foot 5 J inches ; width,1 foot 4 inches. Mus. Marbles, X., pi. 32 ; Ellis, TownleyGallery, II., p. 153.u 2