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GREEK ANTIQUITIES. 
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metopes of one of the ruined temples at Selinus, in Sicily. The sub- 
jects of the sculpture, which is in very high relief, are mythological. 
Next in chronological order should be noticed the restorations, 
placed on each side of the room, of the Eastern and Western pediments 
of a Doric temple in the Island of iEgina, erected probably in the fifth 
or sixth century B.C., and dedicated either to Jupiter or Minerva. The 
plaster figures in these pediments are casts from the original marbles, 
which were discovered in 1811 amongst the ruins of the temple, and 
are now preserved in the Museum of Sculpture at Munich. The group 
in the Western pediment, here placed on the North side of the Room, 
represents the contest of the Greeks and Trojans over the body of 
Patroclus ; the imperfect group in the pediment opposite is supposed 
to represent an incident of the iEginetan expedition against Troy. 
The following are the marbles exhibited in this Room : — 
First in importance is a collection of marbles discovered in 
1812 amongst the ruins of the temple of Apollo Epicurius (or 
" the Deliverer") near the ancient Phigalia in Arcadia. This 
edifice was erected by Ictinus, the architect of the Parthenon 
at Athens, in commemoration of the delivery of the Phigalians 
from the plague, B.C. 430. 
The most important part of this collection consists of twenty-three 
sculptured slabs, originally belonging to a frieze in the interior of the 
cella of the temple, and now arranged on both sides of the Eoom. 
Eleven of them (Nos. 1-11) represent, in mezzo-relievo, the contest 
between the Centaurs and Greeks, which has been noticed in describing 
the metopes of the Parthenon. The other twelve represent the invasion 
of Greece by the Amazons. 
Underneath the frieze are several architectural and sculptural frag- 
ments from the same temple, including part of a Doric capital from 
the outer colonnade, and part of an Ionic capital from one of the 
columns within the cella, the external and internal architecture of the 
building having been of different orders. 
In the Southern half of the Eoom is an archaic draped female torso 
from a temple at Rhamnus, in Attica; an archaic figure of Apollo, 
brought from the East by the late Viscount Strangford ; and a statue 
of Apollo of a somewhat later period, formerly in the Choiseul Gouffier 
Collection. 
In the Northern half of the Room are a statue representing a youth 
winding a diadem round his head, and presumed to be a copy of the 
celebrated Diadumenos of Polycletus ; a figure of Ceres; and a 
hmall an haic draped female torso. 
On the Ivist side is a mutilated figure of a Triton, in alto-relievo, from 
Deloa ; a draped female statue, life-size, without head or extremities, 
fn in Crete; a torso of a male figure, life-size, from Crete, probably a 
Mi rcury | and an ancient copy of an archaic bronze head of Apollo. 
( »ii the North side of the room, an oblong sculptured monument of 
