Slabs xxxv., xxxvi., and part of slab xxxvii. contained the
remainder of the persons on foot. Fragments of xxxv. and of
xxxvi. (original at Athens) alone remain, although the slabs
were complete in the time of Carrey. The figures as he draws them
appear to be elderly men, eighteen in number, and resembling in
attire and general character the Thallophori who have been already
noticed on the northern frieze. All are clad in the himation.
Michaelis thinks that No. 72 holds in his left hand a small object
shaped like a clarionet, but he appears to have mistaken the right
arm of No. 73 hanging down for this object. Between these supposed
Thallophori and the victims Carrey inserts four figures, two of
whom hold in their left hands some object like a square tablet,
which may be the bottom of a lyre, as this is the place in
the procession where the musicians might be expected, if the
arrangement on this side corresponded with that on the north
side. The fragment (No. 79*) representing the upper part of a
Scaphephoros carrying a tray must also belong to this part of
the frieze, and is therefore here inserted. It is cast from the
original at Athens, which was not known to Michaelis. It probably
implies that one slab was wanting here, as well as the second
half of slab xxxvii., of which Carrey seems to have only drawn the
first half.
[Rightnote: XXXVIII.-XLV.]
The remainder of the south frieze is occupied with the procession
of victims for the sacrifice. Cows only are here represented,
and, as has been observed, this may indicate that we have here the
native Athenian part of the procession. The order in which these
slabs are exhibited differs from that given by Michaelis in _Der
Parthenon_, pl. 11., because slab xliii., No. 84 (= Michaelis, No.
126; cf. 345, _22_), which is the top left corner of a slab, has
been proved to join to the right side of xli. Other changes
have also been made, but the slab numbers of Michaelis have
been preserved for convenience of reference, and the order now
stands:--xli., joined by xliii., No. 84 (= Michaelis, No. 126);
xxxix., which may join xliii.; xl., which joins xxxix.; xxxviii.,
which may perhaps join xl.; after an interval of one slab, xlii.;
xliii., Nos. 100, 101 (= Michaelis, 127, 128); xliv., the corner
slab. Michaelis has proposed a revised arrangement in _Arch.
Zeit._, 1885, p. 57, which agrees with the foregoing, except that
slabs xxxviii. and xlii. are transposed. Michaelis holds that
xlii. joins xl., and xxxviii. joins xlii. This arrangement suits
the conditions as to space, but the suggested joinings are very
doubtful.
[Sidenote: 85.]
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