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GRECIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
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Pedestal of calcareous stone, on which has apparently been placed 
the statue of x4pollonius, son of Hermogenes, and father of Peraia, the 
mother of Socrates; erected to him by the same Socrates. 
On this pedestal is a bronze statue, the size of life, found at Zifteh, 
supposed to represent Eros Apteros; the eyes are inlaid with silver and 
the nipples with copper. It is composed of nine pieces hammered to¬ 
gether. Purchased in 1840. 
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 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 be¬ 
longing to the former subject was from right to left.; that of the latter 
from left to right. 
A circumstance wdiich adds very much to the interest of these mar¬ 
bles is our knowledge of the precise time w 7 hen they were executed; 
for Pausanias, in his description of this temple, informs us that it was 
built by Ictinus, an architect contemporary with Pericles, and w T ho 
built the Parthenon at Athens. These marbles are all engraved and 
more fully described in the fourth part of the description of the Mu¬ 
seum Marbles. 
Underneath 1—11 is a frieze from Xanthus, in Lycia, representing 
a contest of horse and foot combatants; and on the opposite side 
are tw 7 o rows of a frieze from the same place, on wdiich is the as¬ 
sault of a city, supposed to be the capture of Xanthus by Har- 
pagus. 
In the centre of the Room are eight statues: seven representing 
females in rapid motion, and having at their feet various animals, as an 
eel, dove, dolphin, &c. ; and one of a youth bearing off a female. 
On two temporary frameworks behind the statues are parts of two 
friezes, on which are sacrificial processions and banquets, and portions 
bf three pediments with divinities, and combats of w arriors. All these 
are from the ancient Xanthus. 
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 surmounted the pe¬ 
diments, and formed the superior moulding. From the same temple. 
Nos. 28—38. Fragments of the Metopes, found in the porticos of 
the pronaos and posticus, wdiich were enriched with triglyphs. From 
the same temple. 
No. 39. A small tile, wdiich w 7 as 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. 
