122 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [PHIGALIAN 
attendant eunuch. The royal chariot follows in the rear, with a war¬ 
rior leading the horses. N.W. Edifice. 
2. A fragment, representing an enemy on horseback, and wearing a 
crested helmet, pursued by two Assyrian horsemen. 
On the Framework between the Tenth and Eleventh Compartments 
is a collection of painted bricks, which were used in decorating the 
interior of the Edifices. 
PHIGALIAN SALOON. 
Nos. 1—23. Bas-reliefs, representing the battle of the Centaurs and i 
Lapithae, and the combat between the Greeks and Amazons; they were 
found in the ruins of the temple of Apollo Epicurius (or the deliverer) i 
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 i 
from left to right. 
A circumstance which adds very much to the interest of these mar¬ 
bles is our knowledge of the precise time when they were executed; i 
for Pausanias, in his description 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 engraved and 
more fully described in the fourth part of the description of the Mu¬ 
seum Marbles. 
No. 24. A fragment of a Doric capital of one of the columns of the ij 
peristyle. From the same temple. 
No" 25. A fragment of an Ionic capital of one of the columns of the jl 
cella. From the same temple. 
Nos. 26, 27. Two fragments of the tiles which surmounted the 1 
pediments, and formed the superior moulding. From the same temple. : I 
Nos. 28—38. Fragments of the Metopes, found in the porticos of 
the pronaos and posticus, which were enriched with triglyphs. From 
the same temple. 
No. 39. A small tile, which was used for the puipose of covering 
the joints of the greater tiles ; the ornament in front surmounted the ]l 
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. Large fragment of a bas-relief, No. 166, belongs to 4he 
Elgin collection: it represen ';s Hercules preparing to strike Diomed, 
king of Thrace, whom he has already knocked down, and is holding by 
the hair of his head. 
No. 41*. Painted tile. From Aegium, in Achaia. Presented/by | 
Colonel Leake, 1838. 
No. 42. Small statue of Hercules, wanting the head, arms, and 
feet ; the paws of the lion’s skin, and part of a child, probably 
Telephus. are seen below. From the coast of Laconia. Presented 
by Colonel Leake, 1838. 
No. 43. Draped female statue, wanting the head. From Sparta. 
Presented by Colonel Leake, 1838. 
