The temple was discovered by a French architect, Bocher, in November, 1765 (Chandler, _Travels in Greece_, 1776, p. 295). For descriptions of the architecture and sculpture, see Stackelberg, _Der Apollotempel zu Bassae, in Arcadien_, 1826; Donaldson, in Stuart, 2nd ed., vol. IV.; Blouet, _Expédition scientifique de Morée_, 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. Plast._, 3rd ed., I., p. 449; Murray, II., p. 169; Wolters, Nos. 880-912. For literature specially relating to the frieze, see below, p. 279. Views and plans of the temple are exhibited in a table case. ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS. [Sidenote: =505.=] Two fragments of the cymatium cornice, with a pattern of palmettes alternating with palmettes of a plainer form, springing from acanthus leaves as on the cornice of the Erechtheion. The member to which these fragments belong surmounted the pediments. Marble; height, 1 foot 1/8 inch; width, 4 feet 2-3/4 inches. The left-hand fragment is engraved in _Mus. Marbles_, IV., vignette. _Synopsis_, Nos. 26, 27; Cockerell, _Phigaleia_, pl. 6; Ellis, _Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles_, II., p. 212. [Sidenote: =506.=] Fragment of a Doric capital, from a column of the external colonnade. Limestone; height of fragment, 1 foot 5 inches; width. 1 foot 9 inches. _Mus. Marbles_, IV., pl. 25, fig. 4; _Synopsis_, No. 24; _cf._ Cockerell, _Phigaleia_, pl. 6. [Sidenote: =507.=] Fragment of the capital of one of the Doric columns of the pronaos or opisthodomos, including the lower part of the echinus, and the upper part of the flutings. Limestone; height, 5-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 6-1/2 inches. [Sidenote: =508.=] Fragment of the capital of one of the Ionic columns of the interior of the cella, with a part of the fluting. These capitals are of peculiar form, each column being connected at the back by a cross wall with the wall of the cella (see plan). The three exposed faces of the capital had each a pair of Ionic volutes. In the centre of the volute is a stud of marble separately made. The hole for it was prepared by a series of drill holes placed so as to form a ring-like depression, the centre of which was afterwards worked out. The profile of the side pairs of volutes was somewhat different to that of the front pair, whence it can be ascertained that the fragment in the British Museum contains a part of the front and right side of the cap. Marble; height, 1 foot 6 inches. _Mus. Marbles_, IV., pl. 25, fig. 3; _Synopsis_, No. 25; Cockerell, _Phigaleia_, pl. 14. [Sidenote: =509.= 1.] Roof tile, with antefixal end, with a palmette in relief above two volutes springing from an acanthus.