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272 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.remarkable form, whicli is now lost. Beyond it was thetemple image, whicli by a peculiar arrangement is thoughtto have looked to the east, towards a side door, the orientationof the temple being nearly north and south. Ithas been thought that thisarrangement may show thatan ancient shrine was embodied in the later temple.(Curtius, PeZop., i., p. 329; Michaelis, Arch. Zeit., 1876,p. 161). The frieze was internal, and passed round, theFig. 22.—Plan of the Temple of Apollo at Phigaleia.cella, with the exception of that portion which is southof the Corinthian column. (Compare the ground plan,fig. 22, and the view, plate xi.)The temple was discovered by a French architect, Bocher, inNovember, 1765 (Chandler, Travels in Greece, 1776, p. 295).For descriptions of the architecture and sculpture, see Stackelberg,Ber Apollotempel zu Bassae, in Arcadien, 1826 ; Donaldson,in Stuart, 2nd ed., vol. IV. ; Blouet, Expedition scientifique deMoree, 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 Panhellenius at Aegina,and of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, near Phigaleia, in Arcadia,1860; Overbeck, Gr. Blast., 3rd ed., I., p. 449; Murray, II.,p. 169 ;Wolters, Nos. 880-912. For literature specially relatingto the frieze, see below, p. 279. Views and plans of the templeare exhibited in a table case.