A torso of a wingless or Athenian Victory is the next object that demands notice (105):  the figure was represented without wings, in token of the inseparability of the goddess from the Greek capital.  Another object is marked 105:  this is the head of the Victory; or rather a cast from the original head presented to the trustees by Count de Laborde.  Lastly, of the western pediment sculptures, the visitor will remark the lap of a figure, with a portion of an infant remaining:  this ruin is all that is left of Latona and her two children, Diana and Apollo.  Having fully examined these ruins of the Parthenon, the visitor must direct his immediate attention to the remains collected from the ruins of the celebrated

Double temple of the Erectheum and Pandrosus.

The temple of the Erectheum was situated at Athens, less than two hundred feet distant from the Parthenon.  It was the temple of Athene Polias, or Minerva and Erectheus; and adjoining it was the chapel of Pandrosus.  Philocles of Acharnae was the architect of the building, which Lord Aberdeen, reiterating the opinion of many great authorities, in his “Inquiry into the Principles of Beauty in Grecian Architecture,” styles the most perfect known specimen of the Ionic order of architecture.  It was built on the spot where Neptune and Minerva are supposed to have contested the honour of naming Athens.  When Lord Elgin visited Athens, the vestibule of the temple was a Turkish powder magazine.

Before examining the few relics from this fine building in the saloon, the visitor should notice the second object, marked 106, which is the cast of a head found during the progress of excavations at Athens, between the ancient gate of the Peloponnesus and the temple of Theseus.  Having passed from this relic, the visitor will at once examine the architectural relics of different parts of the Erectheum, which are more interesting to the architectural student than to the general visitor.  The fragment 109 is the lower portion of a draped female statue; the relic marked 110 is part of the shaft of an Ionic column; the capital of a column, 125, is very beautiful:  but the object that will be most attractive to the general visitor is the statue marked 128, known in architecture as a Caryatid, which was used in the temple of Pandrosus instead of columns.  Hereabouts also, amid the miscellaneous fragments, the visitor should notice a colossal headless and heavily-draped figure, marked 111.  This is the wreck of the great statue of Bacchus which surmounted a monument erected three hundred and twenty years before the Christian era, by Thrasyllus of Deceleia, to record the victory of a tribe at a great festival of Bacchus.  This statue has been variously christened.  Some believe it to be the fragment of a Niobe; others of a Diana.  It is generally allowed to be a noble sample of Greek sculpture.  Hereabouts, also, is the well-known imperfect statue of Icarus (113), brought in fragments from the Acropolis.  The urn marked 122 is a sepulchral vessel, with figures in bas-relief; 123 is a sepulchral column, with an Athenian name upon it; and then the visitor will pass rapidly the fragments of Doric and Ionic columns from various Greek temples.  With the casts beginning from 136, the visitor will start with his examination of the fragments from the