A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Part 41

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Left breast of female figure, the drapery strained over it; the scale is similar to that of the figure C in the west pediment.

Height, 9 inches.

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Cast of a marble head in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris, wrongly a.s.signed by C. Lenormant to the pediments of the Parthenon.

Height, 1 foot 9 inches. _Gaz. Arch._, 1875, pl. 1; Wolters, No. 1280; Laborde, _Athenes_, I., p. 157; Michaelis, p. 202, B*; Babelon, _Cabinet des Antiques a la Bibl. Nat._, pl. 20.

CASTS FROM FRAGMENTS OF CHARIOT-HORSES OF WEST PEDIMENT.

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A large number of small fragments of horses from the west pediment has been discovered. Several of these fragments have been proved to have belonged to the horses of Poseidon, which were lost before the visit of Cyriac of Ancona, in 1447. Others belonged to the group of horses, which was let fall by Morosini's workmen. Casts of these are preserved in the British Museum, but only the most remarkable are exhibited in the Elgin Room.

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Horse's head broken off at the setting off of the neck. The nose wanting. The mane, which has been hogged, and the surface of this head in several places are broken away. This fragment and the two following are a.s.signed by Sauer to the chariot of Poseidon.

Michaelis, pl. 8, J. K. _a_; Laborde, pl. 26, fig. 25.

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Horse's head, lower half broken away. The mane hogged, with a loose lock in front. Behind the ears a groove and two perforations are worked in the mane, and above the ears two other perforations for the attachment of trappings of metal.

Overbeck, _Ber. d. k. sachs. Ges. d. Wissenschaften_, 1879, pl. 1, fig. 3.

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A right hindleg from the stifle joint to the pastern, bent, so as to indicate a rearing action. From below the hough to the hoof the leg is carved out of a block resting on the bed of the pediment.

The greater part was sculptured on another block also set in the bed, which is now wanting, and was fitted to the first block at a joint roughly tooled. The outside of the haunch and hough have been cut away, evidently to gain room for the left hindleg of another horse, or, according to Sauer, for the chariot-pole. This limb is composed of three separate fragments.

Michaelis, pl. 8, J. K. _f_; Laborde, pl. 26, fig. 40; Overbeck, _Ber. d. k. sachs. Gesell. d. Wissenschaften_, 1879, p. 72, pl. 1; and 1880, p. 161.

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Left hindleg from stifle to below hough, bent, made up of two fragments; the upper one may be Michaelis, pl. 8, J. K. _g_; Laborde, pl. 26, fig. 36.

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Left thigh from below stifle; the outer side split off, broken off in the hough joint.

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Right forefoot; made up of two fragments of which one is Michaelis, pl. 8, J. K. _p_; broken off below the knee; the hoof free from the ground.

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Hoof of forefoot, free from the ground; cut away on one side with rough surface; under the foot are holes round the edge as if for nails.

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Hindhoof attached to fragment of base.

Michaelis, pl. 8, J. K. _m_; Laborde, pl. 26, fig. 41.

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Left foreleg, bent, from above knee to below knee.

Michaelis, pl. 8, J. K. _s_; Laborde, pl. 26, fig. 30 bis.

MARBLE FRAGMENTS OF METOPES.

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The following fragments can be a.s.signed with confidence to their respective places on the south side.

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Metope XII. (No. 314). Foot of female figure. See _ante_, No. 314.

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Metope XIV. The body of a male figure from the neck to the navel.

This fragment is engraved in the vignette to _Museum Marbles_, Part vii., and was drawn by Carrey, who gives the whole metope as a youth raising his hands in astonishment, and a woman with a casket.

Michaelis, pl. 3, xiv.; _Synopsis_, No. 319 (143).

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Metope XVI. The head and trunk of a figure who has fallen in a combat between two men. The trunk was one of the Elgin fragments, and is also engraved in the vignette to _Museum Marbles_, Part vii. The head was formerly at Chatsworth, and was presented to the Museum by _the Duke of Devons.h.i.+re_ in 1859. Carrey gives the position of the head of the fallen figure very accurately.

_Synopsis_, No. 323 (294); Michaelis, pl. 3, xvi.

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Metope XX. Left thigh of female figure with clinging drapery, standing turned to the left.

The following fragments are either of doubtful or unknown origins.

Probably they are all derived from metopes on the south side.

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