The Lapith is kneeling on his right knee. The Centaur, the human portion of whose body is broken away, presses down his antagonist. From Carrey's drawing, taken when this metope was nearly complete, we learn what the action was. He represents the Centaur bending over the kneeling Lapith, and raising his right hand to strike a deadly blow at his antagonist, who looks up with his head thrown back, and stretches out his left arm towards the breast of the Centaur. A chlamys hangs down from the left arm of the Lapith. His right arm, which was lost in the time of Carrey, must have been raised. The right hind foot of the Centaur rests on a rock. _Mus. Marbles_, VII., pl. 6; Michaelis, pl. 3, viii.; _Stereoscopic_, No. 86. [Sidenote: =312.=] The Centaur has again the advantage. The Lapith is thrown down over a large wine vessel, _pithos_; the Centaur has grasped his left leg with his left hand, rolling him back on the jar. The Lapith seizes his antagonist by the beard with his left hand, while his right arm, now broken off, has been vainly extended behind him, seeking some support. The right thigh of this figure, the head and part of the right arm of the Centaur are casts from three fragments at Athens. Carrey's drawing gives the left arm and side of the Centaur, as well as his head. The head and right arm and hand of the Lapith are also shown in his drawing, but not the portion of right thigh which has recently been added. The wine vessel in this metope, and the hydria in No. 307, indicate the wedding feast of Peirithoös as the scene of the contest. _Mus. Marbles_, VII., pl. 4; Michaelis, pl. 3, ix.; _Stereoscopic_, No. 87. [Sidenote: =313.=] This metope is a cast from the one removed by Choiseul-Gouffier when French ambassador at the Porte, about the year 1787, and now in the Louvre. The group represents a Centaur carrying off a Lapith wife or maiden. The Centaur is rearing up; he grasps the woman between his forelegs. His left hand presses against her left side, and it appears from Carrey's drawing of this metope that his right hand grasped her right wrist. With her left hand she is vainly endeavouring to loosen his grasp round her waist, and to readjust her disordered drapery. She wears a chiton with diploïdion fastened on the right shoulder with a brooch. In the struggle the chiton has fallen from the left shoulder. On her right foot is a sandal with a thick sole; her left foot is broken off above the ankle. Carrey's drawing gives this foot resting on a rock, also other parts of the group which are now wanting. _Mus. Marbles_, VII., pl. 16; Michaelis, pl. 3, x.; _Stereoscopic_, No. 88.