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and south. Each front had six, and each of the sides
fifteen columns, of course reckoning those at the
angles twice. Pausanias informs us that the bronze
statue of Apollo, twelve feet high, which stood in
the cella or inner chapel of this temple, was removed
to Megalopolis. The cella was the. only part of this
temple which had a roof, and that, according to Pau-
sanias, was of stone.
The sculptures which had fallen from the walls ot
the temple of Phigaleia, where they originally formed
the frieze in the interior of the cella, consisted, when
found, of twenty-three slabs, 2 feet 1 inch and a
quarter high. In length they varied from each other.
The shortest measured 2 feet 7 inches and three-
quarters, the longest 5 feet 10 inches. The average
length of the greater number was 4 feet 5 inches.
The full number of the slabs had been twenty-four.
The entire length of what was found in the temple
|§ ninety-six feet. Their fall had shattered them
into a great number of fragments; but by (he
Patience and perseverance of those by whom
'hey were discovered, the minutest portions were
s°ught for amongst the surrounding rubbish of the
temple, and when the whole were replaced they
tendered the bas-reliefs so complete that no restora-
ll°n was necessary to make the subjects intelligible.
One piece of the frieze*, which had been obtained
from a peasant who resided in the neighbourhood of
'he temple, was presented to the Museum, in 1S16,
"I John Spencer Stanhope, Esq., and in 1S24
tjyo other fragments were added by the Chevalier
«ondsted.
In Hughes's Travels in Greece, Syo. 1830, vol. i.
P' 194, we have an interesting extract of a letter from
It consisted of the upper part of the figure of the Athenian on
">e 'eft of the tablet in No. 17.
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and south. Each front had six, and each of the sides
fifteen columns, of course reckoning those at the
angles twice. Pausanias informs us that the bronze
statue of Apollo, twelve feet high, which stood in
the cella or inner chapel of this temple, was removed
to Megalopolis. The cella was the. only part of this
temple which had a roof, and that, according to Pau-
sanias, was of stone.
The sculptures which had fallen from the walls ot
the temple of Phigaleia, where they originally formed
the frieze in the interior of the cella, consisted, when
found, of twenty-three slabs, 2 feet 1 inch and a
quarter high. In length they varied from each other.
The shortest measured 2 feet 7 inches and three-
quarters, the longest 5 feet 10 inches. The average
length of the greater number was 4 feet 5 inches.
The full number of the slabs had been twenty-four.
The entire length of what was found in the temple
|§ ninety-six feet. Their fall had shattered them
into a great number of fragments; but by (he
Patience and perseverance of those by whom
'hey were discovered, the minutest portions were
s°ught for amongst the surrounding rubbish of the
temple, and when the whole were replaced they
tendered the bas-reliefs so complete that no restora-
ll°n was necessary to make the subjects intelligible.
One piece of the frieze*, which had been obtained
from a peasant who resided in the neighbourhood of
'he temple, was presented to the Museum, in 1S16,
"I John Spencer Stanhope, Esq., and in 1S24
tjyo other fragments were added by the Chevalier
«ondsted.
In Hughes's Travels in Greece, Syo. 1830, vol. i.
P' 194, we have an interesting extract of a letter from
It consisted of the upper part of the figure of the Athenian on
">e 'eft of the tablet in No. 17.
X3