ELGIN SALOON.] GREEK SCULPTURES. ’ 01 
the battle of the Greeks and Amazons, and Hercules appears among 
the combatants. The style of at least two artists can be traced in these 
sculptures; and apparently more sculptures from different parts of the 
building have been preserved. In a.d. 1552, these sculptures were 
discovered amidst a heap of ruins* and employed by the Knights of 
Rhodes in the construction of the castle of St. Peter at Halicarnassus, the 
present fortress at Boudroum, in the walls of which they remained en¬ 
cased till their removal in 1846, when they were presented by the Sultan 
Abd-ul-Mehjid to Sir Stratford Canning, H. M. Ambassador at Con¬ 
stantinople, and by him to the British Museum. In this room are also 
placed a circular altar, with a subject in bas-relief, which formerly 
stood on the sea-shore of Halicarnassus, and a draped female statue 
without a head, which was also inserted into the walls of the fortress of 
Boudroum ; also presented by Sir Stratford Canning. 
At the ends of the room are casts of the metopes of the old temple 
at Selinus, which are considered some of the earliest specimens of 
Greek art; they represent Hercules and the Cercopes, or two thieves 
of Ephesus ; Perseus, assisted by Pallas Athene, killing the Gorgon 
Medusa, out of whom leaps Pegasus; a female divinity who has killed 
one of the giants; and a figure in a quadriga. Presented by Samue f 
Angell , Esq. 
In this Room are also disposed a torso of Venus naked, and of fine 
sculpture. 
Statue of Hymen, the legs wanting from the knees. 
A statue of a Satyr, formerly in the collection of the Rondini Palace 
at Rome, and thence called the Rondini Faun. The torso only is 
antique, and the restoration represents a satyr playing on the cymbals. 
A statue of a discobolus, who is represented in the attitude of 
throwing the discus or quoit, supposed to be a copy in marble of the 
celebrated bronze statue made by the sculptor Myro. Found, in 1791, 
in the grounds of the Conte Fede, in the part of Hadrian’s Villa Tiber- 
tine, supposed to have been the pinacotheca or picture gallery. 
A statue of Isis, apparently in the character of Ceres; formerly in 
the Macaroni palace at Rome. 
A statue of Libera or of Ariadne holding a thyrsus over her right 
shoulder, and a bunch of grapes in her left hand; at her feet is a 
panther. It was found by Mr. Gavin Hamilton at Roma Vecchia, a 
few miles from Rome, on the road to Frascati. 
ELGIN SALOON*. 
Many of the sculptures in this Room having been described by va¬ 
rious authors, and referred to by the numbers with which they were 
marked in their former situation, those numbers have been retained : but 
to facilitate a reference from the Synopsis to the marbles, a fresh set of 
numbers, adapted to their present disposition, has been added, which 
will easily be distinguished from the former by being painted in red. 
The general order observed in affixing these numbers to the several 
objects is as follows:—- 
* All the articles in this room, except a few which are particularly specified, be¬ 
longed to the Earl of Elgin. 
