. Italy; handbook for travellers. IL C 0 X- t i 1 P IAN TE HRE NO. of a bearded Bacchus and archaistic statues of Athene and Aphroditefrom Partinico (partly restored).—By the second wall: cornicewith beautiful gargoyles in the form of lions heads (5th cent. )from Himera; headless statue from Girgenti. In the centre, tufasarcophagus from Girgenti. Beside the door, two excellent Romanportrait-statues from Tyndaris. Inscription from Selinus. The Sala di Selinunte contains the celebrated * Metopes ofSelinus. As that city (p. 289) was founded in 627 and de-stroyed in 429 , these metope

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. Italy; handbook for travellers. IL C 0 X- t i 1 P IAN TE HRE NO. of a bearded Bacchus and archaistic statues of Athene and Aphroditefrom Partinico (partly restored).—By the second wall: cornicewith beautiful gargoyles in the form of lions heads (5th cent. )from Himera; headless statue from Girgenti. In the centre, tufasarcophagus from Girgenti. Beside the door, two excellent Romanportrait-statues from Tyndaris. Inscription from Selinus. The Sala di Selinunte contains the celebrated * Metopes ofSelinus. As that city (p. 289) was founded in 627 and de-stroyed in 429 , these metopes illustrate the development ofHellenic sculpture from its beginning until a period shortly beforeits culminating point (comp. pp. xxvii-xxx). — To the left, be-tween portions of the massive entablature (largely restored) of theoldest temple (see p. 289; Temple C), three Metopes dating fromabout 600 B. C, and exhibiting the peculiar characteristics of theDoric race in spite of all the embarrassments of an incipient consist of the same yellow variety

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