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remarkable form, which is now lost. Beyond i.t was the
temple image, which by a peculiar arrangement is thought
to have looked to the east, towards a side door, the orien-
tation of the temple being nearly north and south. It
has been thought that this arrangement may show that
an ancient shrine was embodied in the later temple.
(Curtius, Pelop., i., p. 329; Michaelis, Arch, Zeit., 1876,
p. 161). The frieze was internal, and passed round the

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Fig. 22.—Plan of the Temple of Apollo at Phigaleia.

cella, with the exception of that portion which is south
of the Corinthian column. (Compare the ground plan,
fig. 22, and the view, plate xi.)

The temple was discovered by a French architect, Bocher, in
November, 1765 (Chandler, Travels in Greece, 1776, p. 295).
For descriptions of the architecture and sculpture, see Stackel-
berg, Der Apollotempel zu Bassae,in Arcadien, 1826 ; Donaldson,
in Stuart, 2nd ed., vol. IV.; Blouet, Expedition scientifique de
Moree, II.; Museum Marbles, IV.; Leake, Travels in the Morea,
II., chap, xii., p. 1 ; Ellis, Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles, II.,
p. 175 ; Cockerell, The Temple of Jupiter Panhcllenius at Aegina,
and of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, near Phigaleia, in Arcadia,
1860; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., p. 449; Murray, II.,
p. 169 ; Wolters, Nos. 880-912. For literature specially relating
to the frieze, see below, p. 279. Views and plans of the temple
are exhibited in a table case.