. Italy: handbook for travellers. Third Part, Southern Italy and Sicily . , and immediately behind the standing statue of Zeus, enter 268 Route 24. PALERMO. Museum. a narrow Vestibule, which is occupied^ by casts of a capital fromTemple 0 at Selinus and of one of the colossal Atlantes or temple of Zeus at Girgenti. We now pass to the right through a small room (which containstwo Phoenician sarcophagi from Cannita, to the E. of Palermo,showing Greek influence) into the Sala dei Musaici or delleAntichita di Panormo, the floor and walls of which are decoratedwith the large sto
. Italy: handbook for travellers. Third Part, Southern Italy and Sicily . , and immediately behind the standing statue of Zeus, enter 268 Route 24. PALERMO. Museum. a narrow Vestibule, which is occupied^ by casts of a capital fromTemple 0 at Selinus and of one of the colossal Atlantes or temple of Zeus at Girgenti. We now pass to the right through a small room (which containstwo Phoenician sarcophagi from Cannita, to the E. of Palermo,showing Greek influence) into the Sala dei Musaici or delleAntichita di Panormo, the floor and walls of which are decoratedwith the large stone-mosaics found in the Piazza della Vittoria in1869. That on the floor represents various mythological subjects,and two large heads of Apollo and Neptune, the latter of which isparticularly fine; that on the wall represents Orpheus charming theanimals. Here also are some Palerman inscriptions, one (No. 390)a Christian example of the year 448. We again turn to the right and enter the Sala del Fatjno. Inthe centre is an admirable Satyr from Torre del Greco. Behind, head. IT H°C oitile
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