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 Greek Sculpture. 189 The remains of six temples were discovered in Selinus in 1823. They consist principally of metopes * of lime- stone, adorned with sculptures in very high relief, one of which represented a struggle between an Amazon or a goddess, and a warrior, and another a dying warrior with a female figure placing her foot on his prostrate body. They are all lifelike, and full of promise, and their chief interest consists in their being among the earliest works in which an attempt was made to shake off the influence of Eastern Fig. 77. — From the Harpy tomb in the British Museum. art, and to produce freely-arranged groups and ideal forms. We may add that they have much colour remaining, and are supposed to date from about 650 B.C. Casts may be seen in the British Museum. The most remarkable of the monuments from Xanthus is the famous Harpy tomb (Fig. 77), in the Lycian room trigylphs in the entablature of a Doric temple.
 * A metope, it will be remembered, is the square space between two