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ROOM XII. 
Antiquities. 
Room xiii. 
Antiquities. 
ROOM XIV. 
Antiquities. 
of which are truly elegant. The forms of the 
vases are much varied, and are equally simple 
and beautiful. 
THIRTEENTH ROOM. 
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 
This Room contains an extensive and valuable 
collection of prints and drawings, the most im¬ 
portant part of which was bequeathed by the 
Rev. C. M. Cracherode.—The contents of this 
Room, as well as the collection of coins and 
medals, can be seen only by a few persons at a 
time, and by particular permission. 
FOURTEENTH ROOM. 
No. 1— 23. Bas-reliefs ; representing the bat¬ 
tle of the Centaurs and Lapithse, and the com¬ 
bat between 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 Lapith^ is sculp¬ 
tured on eleven slabs of marble (1—II ). That 
of the Greeks and Amazons occupies twelve 
(12—23). The direction of the slabs belong¬ 
ing to the former subject 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 description of this temple, in¬ 
forms 
