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of the deities present at the contest of Minerva
and Neptune for the honour of naming and
patronizing the newly built Cecropia. The
Metopes* were executed in high relief; and
each displayed a distinct group of a Centaur
and a Lapitha. About twelve feet within the
outer range of columns of each portico, was
another rowr of less diameter, the frize of which
was continued round the walls of the Cella,
or inclosed area of the Temple: this frize ex-
hibited in low relief, and continued succession,
an amazing number and variety of figures
forming the Panathenaic procession. The in-
terior of the building was divided into the
Cella and Opisthodomus. In the middle of the
Cella was an oblong space, sunk a little more
than an inch belowr the level of the Opistho-
domus. At the eastern end of the shrine was
erected the famous idol mentioned in the Life
of Phidias, and thus described by Pausanias:
"The image itself is of ivory and gold; on the

* A Metope is a square space between the triglyphs of a Doric
frize: it is variously embellished, but most frequently with the
head of some sacrificial animal bound with chaplets 3 from which,
perhaps, itoriginally derived itsname, pirwjroV} a face orforehead.