. Italy: handbook for travellers. Third Part, Southern Italy and Sicily . IT H°C oitile. P TE H HE 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
. Italy: handbook for travellers. Third Part, Southern Italy and Sicily . IT H°C oitile. P TE H HE 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 s
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