On the slab next on the right (xii.) is the hind quarter of one of
the horses, cut off at the joint. At the side of the chariot is
a marshal (No. 32), his face turned, and his right arm extended
towards the procession following on the right. The charioteer (No.
33), who was mistaken for a Victory by Visconti and others, but
whose figure is certainly not female, differs in costume from the
others in this frieze. He wears a long chiton, over which is a
diploïdion reaching to the hips. The breast is crossed diagonally
by two bands. As a part of the hair is on a fragment known to have
been missing before the time of Stuart, his drawing of the figure
is proved to be untrustworthy.
[Sidenote: 34.]
The warrior (No. 34) attached to the chariot was complete in the
time of Carrey. The upper half was lost before the time of Stuart,
and was only re-discovered in the latest excavations on the
Acropolis in 1889. He is represented standing on the ground, and
looking back to the next chariot. His shield is raised as if
to stop its course. The wheel of this chariot, as of some that
succeed it, must have been, in part, wholly detached from the
ground. The foot of the marshal is complete, but it is easy to
trace where the wheel prevented the convenient working of the
ground beneath it. (See Plate viii., and _Stereoscopic_, No. 19.)
[Rightnote: XIII.]
Of slab xiii., which Carrey places next, nothing has been
identified with certainty, but Michaelis is probably right in
assigning to this group the fragment of four horses, of which
a cast from the original at Athens is here inserted (cf. Plate
viii., and No. 345, _9_). Above the back of the second horse is
the _hestor_ (see below), and also what appears to be a small
piece of the drapery of a marshal. This, however, cannot be the
case if the fragment described (No. 345, _9_) contains the marshal
belonging to this slab.
[Rightnote: XIV.]
[Sidenote: 35.]
[Sidenote: 36.]
[Sidenote: 37.]
Slab xiv. contains the third chariot with part of the team of
horses. The marshal (No. 35) stands beyond the horses, and looks
towards the charioteer. The charioteer (No. 36) had reins of
bronze, as indicated by two rivet holes. Like the driver on slab
xviii. he wears a chiton with long close-fitting sleeves. The
apobates (No. 37) appears about to step down from the chariot. The
wheel of this chariot as of that on slab xii. must have stood out
entirely free from the ground. When Carrey drew this slab, the
head of the charioteer (No. 36) and the head and body of the
apobates (No. 37), of which only the lower part now remains, were
extant. Close behind the wheel are traces of a horse's forefoot,
which, as we see from Carrey's drawing, belonged to the chariot
on the slab which follows next on the right (xv. according to the
order of Michaelis).
[Rightnote: XV.]
[Sidenote: 38, 39.]
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