In slab xxv. the horses' heads now wanting are given in Carrey's
drawing. Of the charioteer (No. 60) very little is now visible
but part of his drapery. The armed figure (No. 61) in this chariot
group, whose appearance is more youthful than that of the other
hoplites in this part of the frieze, wears a chiton with a double
girdle and a chlamys. Near the edge of his shield are two rivet
holes for a bronze handle; in the upper one the metal still
remains. The marshal (No. 62) standing at the side of the horses
stretches out his right hand towards the charioteer with the
forefinger extended, a gesture which indicates that he is giving
an order. The rivet holes on the horses' crests show that the
reins were of bronze.
[Rightnote: XXVI., XXVII.]
Slabs xxvi., xxvii., of Michaelis, contained two chariot groups
which we only know through Carrey's drawings. In both the horses
are springing forward; cf. No. 345, _20_.
[Rightnote: XXVIII.]
Michaelis inserts to represent slab xxviii. a fragment which
belongs to the north side, slab xxiv.
[Rightnote: XXIX.]
The lower corner on the left side of xxix. has been cast from
a fragment at Athens, which has been identified since the
publication of the work of Michaelis. This fragment supplies the
missing part of the wheel and a small piece of flying drapery
belonging to one of the figures in the chariot. In this group the
marshal at the side of the chariot is wanting. On the right-hand
edge of this slab, just above the horses' forelegs and close to
the joint, is part of the outline of a shield. This shield must
have belonged to one of the figures in the chariot following on
the next slab; it is evident, therefore, that between xxix. and
xxx. was another slab, now lost, which we cannot recognise in any
of Carrey's drawings.
[Rightnote: XXX.]
[Sidenote: 66.]
The armed figure (No. 66) wears the Corinthian helmet, which does
not occur elsewhere on the frieze. The handle of his shield was of
bronze, of which a small portion still remains in the rivet hole.
Other rivet holes on the crests of the horses show that the reins
and the _hestor_ for attaching the yoke to the pole were also of
bronze. Here, as in xxix., the marshal is wanting. The horses'
heads, which are treated with more freedom on this slab than
elsewhere on the frieze, are of extraordinary beauty.
[Rightnote: XXXI.]
On slab xxxi., as in the preceding, the reins and the hestor were
of bronze.
[Rightnote: XXXII.-XXXIV.]
Slabs xxxii.-xxxiv. are now wholly lost, except in Carrey's
drawings. They contained two chariots, both at a standstill, or
moving slowly, and the four last persons of the crowd on foot.
[Rightnote: XXXV.-XXXVII.]
[Sidenote: 72.]
[Sidenote: 73.]
[Sidenote: 79*.]
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