Fragment with left foot and part of drapery of figure moving to
the right, and having the left foot hindmost. From the left-hand
lower corner of a slab. The lowness of the relief shows that this
foot belongs to one of the figures on the far side of the victims.
Michaelis combines it with his pl. 11., slab xliii., 126. This
figure, which is 84 according to the Museum numbering, has now
been joined to slab xli. Although the fragment does not seem to
join satisfactorily to the angle of slab xli., yet this seems its
probable position.
Height, 8 inches.
SOUTH OR NORTH FRIEZE.
[Sidenote: 23.]
Fragment of helmeted head looking to the right. The head is
entirely destroyed except the back of the helmet and its crest.
This head perhaps belongs to one of the warriors that accompany
the chariots in the north frieze.
Height, 11-1/2 inches.
ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS FROM THE PARTHENON.
[Sidenote: =350.=]
The capital and uppermost drum of one of the Doric columns of the
north side.
Width of abacus, 6 feet 7-1/4 inches; Penrose, _Athenian
Architecture_, pl. 19, fig. 1.
[Sidenote: =351.=]
Part of a marble tile-front. The roof of the Parthenon, like that
of many other Greek temples, was formed of marble tiles, _solenes_,
carefully adjusted. In the case of the Parthenon the tiles were placed
side by side. Ridge tiles covered the joints, and the lower end of
each ridge terminated in an anthemion. Hence the tile-front was called
by the Greeks _kalypter anthemotos_. See the model of the Parthenon,
and Michaelis, pl. 2, fig. 8.--_Inwood Coll._
Height, 1 foot 1/2 inch.
[Sidenote: =352.=]
Cast of a similar but more perfect tile-front, from the original at
Athens.
Height, 1 foot 8-1/2 inches; Michaelis, pl. 2, fig. 8; Inwood,
_Erechtheion_, pl. 22.
[Sidenote: =353.=]
Cast of lion's head from one of the angles of the pediment. This head,
is worked from a block which forms the springing stone of both the
cymatium and the corona of the pediment. In the modelling of the
lion's head, and especially in the treatment of the mane, there is a
noticeable austerity and conventionalism, such as is appropriate to a
purely decorative piece of sculpture.
Height, 1 foot 4-1/2 inches. See the model of the Parthenon;
Penrose, _Athenian Architecture_, pl. 17; Michaelis, pl. 2, fig.
9; Brunn, _Denkmaeler_, No. 82 B.
[Sidenote: =354, 5.=]
Casts from two fragments of acroteria, probably from the western
pediment.
The acroteria were ornaments placed above the centre of the pediments.
For an example of a complete acroterion, see that from Eleusis, No. 438.
Lengths, 3 feet 3 inches and 1 foot 9 inches; Michaelis, pl. 2,
fig. 10, i, l.
[Sidenote: =356.=]
Marble fragment of a similar acroterion.--_Inwood Coll._
Height, 10 inches; Inwood, _Erechtheion_, pl. 22, p. 130.
[Sidenote: =357.=]
Marble fragment of moulding with painted mæander pattern.--_Inwood
Coll._
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