The first figure on the left of the slab appears to be hastening to the assistance of the flying warrior on the right of the slab just described. Next is a complicated group of five warriors fighting for the body of a wounded man. The latter has sunk helplessly on the ground. He is half raised and clasped under the arms by a friend who attempts to draw him away; a foe tries to seize an ankle, and covers himself meanwhile with his outstretched shield. More in the background two adversaries are engaged in hot combat. The warrior on the left probably had a sword, and that on the right a spear. A friend of the fallen man hastens up from the left. The right thigh of this figure, which is now wanting, is preserved in a drawing by Pars. On the right are two pairs of combatants. In one of these groups a warrior, who has fallen on his right knee, tries to defend himself with his shield, while with the right hand he seizes a stone. The antagonist has his right arm raised to strike, perhaps with a battleaxe, and seizes with his left hand the shield of the kneeling figure. On the right of the slab one of the warriors flies before the assault of his antagonist, whose arms are both raised to strike him.--_Elgin Coll._ Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 5-1/2 inches; length, 6 feet 7-3/4 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 161 (260); Ross, pl. 11, k.; _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 10; Overbeck, _Gr. Plast._, 3rd. ed., I., fig. 81, p. q.; Baumeister, fig. 1239; Brunn, _Denkmaeler_, No. 118. On the right of the slab described was the return of the corner slab of the south side, with a combat of two warriors. Ross, pl. 11, 1.; Overbeck, _Gr. Plast._, 3rd ed., I., fig. 81, r. There is a considerable variety of costumes on the west side of the frieze. Some of the figures are nude; others wear the chlamys only, the chiton only, or the two garments together. The chiton is sometimes worn on both shoulders, and some times only on one shoulder. The warriors are for the most part armed with helmets and large bucklers. In two instances a cap of a flexible material is worn instead of a helmet. None, however, of the costumes are non-Hellenic; and further the attempt made by Overbeck (i. p. 365), to show that the helmet of the figure on the extreme right of the frieze is distinctively B[oe]otian, is untenable (Wolters, p. 284). THE NORTH AND SOUTH FRIEZES. [Sidenote: =423.=] Slab containing a part of the battle between Greeks and Persians. In the first group on the left, a Persian has fallen on his right knee, raising his right arm to defend his head. The antagonist presses his left foot on the right thigh of the Persian, raising his right arm for a spear thrust, and probably seizing the hair of the Persian with his left hand. Next is a group of two Persians and a Greek. One of the Persians lies dead on the ground; his mounted comrade urges his horse against the Greek, who draws back, and raises his arm to strike with a battle-axe.