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room xiii. well as the collection of coins and medals, can be 
Antiquities. seen only by a few persons at a time, and by parti¬ 
cular permission. 
FOURTEENTH ROOM. 
room xiv. N 0 . l—23. Bas-reliefs, representing the battle 
Antiquities, of the Centaurs and Lapithae, and the combat be¬ 
tween the Greeks and Amazons; they were found 
in the ruins of the temple of Apollo Epicurius 
(or the deliverer), built on mount Cotylion, at a 
little distance from the ancient city of Phigalia in 
Arcadia. These bas-reliefs composed the frieze 
in the interior of the Celia. The battle of the 
Centaurs and Lapithse is sculptured on eleven slabs 
of marble. (1—11.) That of the Greeks and 
Amazons occupies twelve. (12—23.) The direc¬ 
tion of the slabs belonging to the former subject 
was from right to left; that of the latter from left 
to right: and it was probably the intention of the 
sculptor, by this contrivance, that the commence¬ 
ment of each contest should meet the eye of the 
spectator at one point of view on his entrance into 
the temple, and that the terminations of both com¬ 
bats should be presented to him in like manner, on 
his departure from the temple. 
A circumstance which adds very much to the in¬ 
terest of these marbles, is our knowledge of the 
precise time when they were executed; for Pausa- 
nias. 
