There are five main scenes being depicted on the relief sculpture of the Treasury. The is the struggle between Hercules and Apollo for the sacred tripod, the Gigantomachy, the assembly of the gods and the battle over the body of Sarpedon, the Judgment of Paris, Paris' abduction of Helen and/or the Rape of Helen (or) the Rape of Antiope. The sculpture is "one of the earliest continuous narrative Greek friezes" (Watrous, 159). The link between each narrative is the Delphic philosophy of self-searching and the idea that hubris, arrogance, and blindness are evils in mortals, for mortals aren't gods. Watrous notes that the sculpture is Attic-Ionic, but the material and iconography are differ from Attic tradition.

The Sanctuary of Apollo is of course the celebration of the god Apollo. The name Delphi supposedly comes from Delphus, who was a son of Apollo and Thyia (Pausanias, VI. 1). So the portrayal of Apollo fighting Hercules for the Delphic Trident is highly relevant to the temenos as a whole. Though stylistically the portrayal is unique, which will be discussed late, but it is a mythological narrative which stands as the theme of the Siphnian Treasury. As for the Gigantomachy, being the struggle between