Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 1) (London, 1892)

nilGALEIAN FEIEZE.

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Cockerell suggests that the subject is Apollo pursuing
Daphne, who was a daughter of the neighbouring river
Ladon, but be is mistaken in thinking that the man's
fingers are stretched out straight, and have no grasp of
the woman's neck.

Marble. Fragment 1 : height, 1 foot 4J inches; width, 1 foot
3 inches. Synopsis, No. 30 ; Exp. de Mortis, II., pi. 23, fig 3 ;
Stackelberg, pi. 30, fig. 3; Mas. Marbles, IV., pi. 2-1, fig. 3;
Ellis, Elgin and Plugalciaa Marbles, II., p. 213. Fragment 2 :
height, 8| inches ; width, 1 foot 4 inches. Synopsis, .No. 35.

518. Upper part of body of draped female figure standing
to the front.

Marble ; height, 8 inches; width, 10 inches. Synopsis, No. 32.

519. Torso of an obese bearded figure, from the neck to the
waist. The figure appears to have been seated, leaning
back, and having a staff and draper}' under the left
arm. Cockerell restores it as a figure standing and
leaning on a staff.

Marble ; height, 1 foot § inch ; width, 8J inches. Synopsis, No. 34 ;
Cockerell, Phigyileia, pi. 5 ; Stackelberg, pi. 30, fig. 4 ; Exp. de
Moree, II., pi. 23, fig. 4.

The Phigaleian Frieze.

The frieze of the Temple of Apollo Epicurios consists of
23 slabs of marble, somewhat resembling Pentelic. The
slabs are each 2 feet inches high, and they have a
combined length of 101 feet f inch. The frieze formed
an internal decoration, above the colonnade within the
cella, and had two long sides measuring 35 feet 9 inches,
and two short sides measuring 14 feet 2 \ inches. The
excess in the measured length of the slabs is explained by
the fact that they overlapped at the angles. The slabs
are about 3|- inches thick, and rested _ on the edge of the