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PHIGAL. SALOON.] GREEK SCULPTURES. 
On this pedestal is a statue in white marble representing the youth¬ 
ful Bacchus or a Satyr, found at Antium. 
Pedestal of calcareous stone, on which has apparently been placed 
the statue of Apollonius, 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, supposed to represent an Eros, 
or Cupid. Found at Zifteh, Lower Egypt. 
PHIGALIAN SALOON. 
Nos. 1—23. Bas-reliefs, representing the battle of the Centaurs and 
Lapithse, 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 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 w r 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. 
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 tem¬ 
ple. 
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. 
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 
