PHIGALIAN SALOON. 
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In the centre recess, 
Casts from Persepolitan sculptures. Presented by the 
Rt. Hon . Mountstuart Elphinstone . 
In the third recess, 
Casts of Persepolitan sculptures. Presented by the 
Right Hon . Mounstuart Elphinstone. 
Arabic inscriptions. The three marked F presented by 
Col - Franklin. Of these, the small one was placed over 
the door of Firuz Shah’s Minaret at Gour; the large 
one upon the same shelf was in front of the Golden 
Mosque at Purrooah ; and the one upon the ground was 
upon the mosque of Mohajen Tola, at Gour. 
In the centre of this Saloon stands a magnificent marble 
Tazza or vase of very large dimensions, the height being 
4 feet 3^ inches, and the diameter of the cup 3 feet 7 
inches. It stands upon a single stem, and has handles 
very curiously formed of swans necks’ and heads grace¬ 
fully intertwined. It was brought to England in 1825, 
and was presented by Lord Western , 1839. 
PHIGALIAN SALOON. 
Nos. 1—23. Bas-reliefs, representing the battle of the 
Centaurs and Lapithae, and the combat 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 Lapithae is sculptured on eleven slabs of 
marble (1—11). That of the Greeks and Amazons oc¬ 
cupies twelve (12—23). The direction of the slabs be¬ 
longing 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 descrip¬ 
tion of this temple, informs us that it was built by Ictinus, 
an architect contemporary with Pericles, and who built 
the Parthenon at Athens. These marbles are all en¬ 
graved and more fully described in the fourth part of 
the description of the Museum Marbles. 
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