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pediment, here placed on the North side of the room, represents the 
death of Achilles ; the imperfect group in the pediment opposite is 
thought to represent an incident of the expedition of Herakles and 
Telamon against Troy. 
The following marbles are exhibited in this room : — 
First in importance is a collection of marbles discovered in 
1812 amongst the ruins of the temple of Apollo Epicurius 
near the ancient Phigalia in Arcadia. This edifice was 
erected by Iktinos, 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 room. 
Eleven of them (Nos. 1-11) represent, in high relief, 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 room is an archaic draped female torso 
from a temple at Rhamnos, in Attica; an archaic figure of Apollo, 
brought from the Levant by Percy Clinton, 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 two statues representing a 
youth winding a diadem round his head. It is probable that the 
original from which both these figures were derived was the celebrated 
Diadumenos by Polykleitos, the contemporary of Phidias. 
On the East side is a mutilated figure of a Triton, in high relief, from 
Delos ; a bust of Pericles ; four terminal heads of Hermes and 
Dionysos ; and an ancient copy of an archaic head of Apollo. 
On the North side of the room, an oblong sculptured monument of 
uncertain use, with a relief representing apparently an offering to 
Juno. From Cape Sigeum, near Troy. 
On one side of the Western door a bust of iEschines ; on the oppo- 
site side, the bust of an unknown philosopher. 
In this room are also provisionally placed four small Etruscan 
cists in freestone, found at Chiusi. They are ornamented with 
friezes in very low relief representing banquets, hunting scenes, and 
dancers, in an archaic style, bearing some resemblance to Assyrian 
sculptures. 
C. T. NEWTON. 
