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PHIGALIAN ruins of the temple of Apollo Epicurius (or the De- 
SA LOO N. Ji verer ) lj U ilt on Mount Cotylion, at a little distance 
Antiquities, 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 Lapithae is 
sculptured on eleven slabs of marble (1—11). That 
of the Greeks and Amazons occupies twelve (12—28). 
The direction of the slabs belonging to the former sub¬ 
ject was from right to left; that of the latter from left 
to right. 
A circumstance which adds very much to the interest 
of these marbles is our knowledge of the precise time 
when they were executed; for Pausanias, in his de¬ 
scription of this temple, informs us that it w T as built by 
Ictinus, an architect contemporary with Pericles, and 
who built the Parthenon at Athens. These marbles 
are all engraved and more fully described in the fourth 
part of the description of the Museum Marbles. 
No. 24. A fragment of a Doric capital of one of the 
columns of the peristyle. From the same temple. 
No. 25. A fragment of an Ionic capital of one of the 
columns of the Celia. From the same temple. 
Nos. 26, 27. Two fragments of the tiles which sur¬ 
mounted the pediments, and formed the superior mould¬ 
ing. From the same temple. 
No. 28—88. Fragments of the Metopes, found in the 
porticos of the pronaos and posticus, which were 
enriched with triglyphs. From the same temple. 
No. 89. A small tile, which was used for the pur¬ 
pose of covering the joints of the greater tiles; the 
ornament in front surmounted the cornice. From the 
same temple. 
No. 40. Another tile used for the same purpose, but 
on the point of the ridge. From the same temple. 
No. 41. A cast in plaster, from one of the ends of 
the celebrated sarcophagus in the cathedral church at 
Agrigentum, which represents the story of Phaedra and 
Hippolytus. Phaedra is here represented surrounded 
by her female domestics, and plunged into grief at the 
refusal 
