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Five metopes from the treasury of Sikyon
(about 560 BC).
These are Sikyonian work, in yellow limestone, very carefully executed,
with remarkable movement, but in poor condition.
They depict mythological scenes such as:
the rape of Europa by Zeus in the form of a bull, the Argonautic
Expedition (the ship Argo), the raid of cattle by the Dioskouroi and the
Apharidai, the hunt of the Kalydonian boar, Frixos and Elli on the ram
with the golden fleece.
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