The New Student's Reference Work/Arundel Marbles

Ar'undel Marbles, part of a collection of ancient sculptures and antiquities gathered among the ruins of Greece early in the 17th century at the expense of the Earl of Arundel, and since 1667 in the possession of the University of Oxford. The most valuable of the marbles is the one bearing the Parian Chronicle, a compendium of the chief events in Grecian and Athenian history, covering a period of 1,318 years or from the reign of Cecrops (1582 B. C.) to the archonship of Diognetus (264 B. C.). The Arundel Society of London, instituted in 1848 for promoting the knowledge of art by the publication of facsimiles and photographs, was named after the Earl of Arundel.