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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. 
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 cella. 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. 
Nos. 28—38. Fragments of the Metopes, found in the 
porticos of the pronaos and posticus, which were en¬ 
riched with triglyphs. From the same temple. 
No. 39. A small tile, which was used for the purpose 
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 of Hippolytus, which has just been communi¬ 
cated to her. The attendants are endeavouring, in 
various ways, to console their mistress, and some of 
