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cased till their removal in 1846, when they were presented by the Sultan 
Abd-al-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, supposed to represent a Roman Empress in the cha¬ 
racter of Isis, v\hich was also inserted into the walls of the fortress of 
Boudroum ; and two bas-reliefs representing gladiatorial combats; and 
two others, votive offerings to Pluto or iEsculapius; from Boudroum; 
also presented by Sir Stratford Canning . 
Bas-relief from a frieze representing an Amazon on horseback 
galloping to the left. Found at Halicarnassus, and supposed to have 
formed part of the sculptures of the mausoleum. Presented by Com¬ 
mander Spratt , R.N. 
Above the preceding, and attached to the Wall, are— 
Nos. 1—23. Bas-reliefs, representing the battle of the Centaurs and 
Lapithm, 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). 4 hat 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 which adds very much to the interest of these mar¬ 
bles is our knowledge of the precise time when 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 who 
built the Parthenon at Athens. These marbles are all engraved and 
fully described in the fourth part of the description of the Museum 
Marbles. 
Underneath the Phigaleian frieze are - 
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 
pediments, 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, which were enriched with triglyphs. From 
the same temple. 
No. 39. A small tile, which was 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. 
No. 41. Large fragment of a bas-relief, No. 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. 
