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PHIGALIAN saloon. 
them attempt to alleviate her distress by the sounds of 
their instruments. 
The large fragment of a bas-relief, numbered 166, 
belongs to the Elgin collection : it represents Hercules 
preparing to strike Diomed, king of Thrace, whom he 
has already knocked down, and is holding by the hair 
of his head. 
At the sides of the Saloon, over the Phigalian frieze, are 
two pediments, of precisely the same form and dimensions 
as those which decorated the eastern and western ends of 
the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, in the island of 
iEgina. The ruins of this temple were visited in 1811 by 
Mr. Cockerell and other gentlemen, and extensive and 
careful excavations were carried on, by which all the mem¬ 
bers and details of the cornice and mouldings have been 
ascertained ; and the minute and accurate measurements 
then made have been the authorities from which these 
imitations have been constructed. The greater part of the 
statues which adorned these pediments were at the same 
time discovered, and every circumstance illustrative of 
their original position, with relation to the architecture of 
the temple, was noted with as much accuracy as the case 
would admit. From the notes then made, and from long 
and careful study of the sculptures themselves, and the 
space which they occupied, Mr. Cockerell composed the 
groupes very much in the mode in which they are now ex¬ 
hibited. From the violence with which the temple had 
been destroyed, probably by an earthquake, all the statues 
had been in some degree mutilated, and some so entirely 
destroyed that it was in vain to attempt their restoration. 
Those which were capable of repair were committed to 
the hands of Mr. Thorwaidsen, and in uniting the broken 
fragments, and restoring the parts of them that were de¬ 
ficient, that eminent artist has shown the greatest care 
and sagacity. 
The pediment at the north side of the room' is taken 
from the western end of the temple; it contains ten 
figures, and it is supposed that there was originally one 
more, who was stooping down to assist the fallen warrior, 
who is wounded, at the feet of Minerva. The subject is 
supposed to be the contest between the Greeks and Trojans 
for the body of Patroclus. 
