GREEK SCULPTURES. 
121 
SALOON.] 
top; Scopas, or Praxiteles, who sculptured the eastern ; Bryaxis, the 
northern ; Timotheus, the southern ; and Leochares the western side ; 
all artists of the later Athenian school. The subject of the frieze is 
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. 1522, 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 ; and two bas-reliefs representing gladiatorial combats; and 
two others, votive offerings to Pluto or iEsculapius; from 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 Samuel 
Any ell, Esq. 
In this Room are also disposed a torso of Venus naked, and of fine 
sculpture. 
A 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 Rondinini Faun. The torso only is 
antique, and the restoration represents a satyr playing on the cym¬ 
bals. 
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 Tiburtina, 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. 
In the centre of this room are placed two models of the Parthenon 
at Athens, made by Mr. R. C. Lucas; one exhibits the condition in 
which this temple appeared after the bombardment by the Venetian 
general, Morosini, in 1687; the other the same edifice restored. 
G 
