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No. 1 — 23. Bas-reliefs, representing the bat- room xiv. 
tie of the Centaurs and Lapithae, and the com- antiquities. 
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 Lapithse is sculp¬ 
tured on eleven slabs of marble. (1—11.) That 
of the Greeks and Amazons occupies twelve. 
(12—23.) The direction of the slabs belonging 
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 us that it was built by Ictinus, an architect 
contemporary with Pericles, and who built the 
Parthenon at Athens. 
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. 
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