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ROOM XIII. 
Antiquities. 
ROOM XIV. 
Antiquities. 
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 Lapithae, and the com¬ 
bat between the Greeks and Amazons; they 
were found in the ruins of the temple of Apollo 
Epicurins (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 Lapithas 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. 
