Marble; height, 1 foot 10 inches; width, 9-1/4 inches.
[Sidenote: =514.=]
Right knee of a draped female figure standing to the right.
Marble; height, 10 inches, width, 11 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 37.
[Sidenote: =515.=]
Fragment with the upper moulding of a metope, and with a circular
object in relief, which has a round depression in the centre. This
object has been interpreted as a cymbal held up by a dancing figure.
Perhaps, however, it may be a ring from the top of a tripod of Apollo,
such as is frequently seen. Cf. Furtwaengler, _Bronzen von Olympia_,
pl. 34.
Marble; height, 4 inches; width, 6 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 31.
[Sidenote: =516.=]
Figure of Apollo Kitharoedos? A male figure, wearing the dress of a
citharist, with a long tunic falling to the feet, confined by a belt
and by bands crossing the breast. The figure also wears a flowing
mantle, and has long hair falling on the shoulders. The figure is
half turned to the right, and looks back to the left. If the preceding
fragment is, as suggested, a part of a tripod, Apollo may be supposed
to have been standing beside the Delphic tripod.
Marble; height, 2 feet 7-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 3 inches.
The two main portions of the figure of Apollo, which have only
recently been joined, give the height of the metopes. _Synopsis_,
Nos. 36, 38.
[Sidenote: =517.=]
[Sidenote: 1.]
This metope, though in a fragmentary state, appears to represent
the rape of a woman by a nude male figure. A woman wearing a
sleeveless chiton and a mantle, raises her right hand wrapped in
the mantle to her head. Of the ravisher we only see the fingers of
the right hand grasping the neck of the woman, and a part of his
arm below the woman's right elbow, and behind her drapery.
[Sidenote: 2.]
On the second fragment, which may be assumed to belong to the same
metope, we see a part of the feet of the woman, the toes of the
man's right foot, and doubtful traces of his left foot. He was
probably represented as seizing the woman by the neck and the
knees.
Cockerell suggests that the subject is Apollo pursuing Daphnè, who
was a daughter of the neighbouring river Ladon, but he is mistaken
in thinking that the man's fingers are stretched out straight, and
have no grasp of the woman's neck.
Marble. Fragment 1: height, 1 foot 4-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot
3 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 30; _Exp. de Morée_, II. pl. 23, fig. 3;
Stackelberg, pl. 30, fig. 3; _Mus. Marbles_, IV., pl. 24, fig. 3;
Ellis, _Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles_, II., p. 213. Fragment 2:
height, 8-3/4 inches; width, 1 foot 4 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 35.
[Sidenote: =518.=]
Upper part of body of draped female figure standing to the front.
Marble; height, 8 inches; width, 10 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 32.
[Sidenote: =519.=]
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