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Arundelian Marbles

a series of ancient sculptured marbles discovered by William Petty, who explored the ruins of Greece at the expense of and for Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, who lived in the time of James I. and Charles I. After the Restoration they were presented by the grandson of the collector to the University of Oxford.

Among them is the "Parian Chronicle," a chronological account of the principal events in Grecian, and particularly in Athenian, history, during a period of 1318 years, from the reign of Cecrops (1450 B. c.) to the archonship of Diognetus (264 в. c.). Cecrops

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