A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of ... - Warburg Institute

HISTORY OF THE PARTHENON. 93two pediments, or gables at each end of the building (seebelow, Nos. 303, 304) were filled with figures sculpturedin the round. Above the architrave, or beam resting onthe columns, were metopes, or square panels, adornedwith groups in very high relief, which served to fill upthe spaces between the triglyphs, or groups of threevertical parallel bands, representing beam ends. AllFig. 6.—Plan of the Parthenon.(From Michaelis.)these sculptured decorations were executed, like thearchitecture, in Pentelic marble.The statue of the Parthenos is known toexistence about 430 a.d. ;have been inbut not long after this date thefigure was removed, and the Parthenon was convertedinto a Christian church, dedicated at first to Santa Sophia(or the Divine Wisdom), and afterwards to the Panagia (orVirgin Mary). For the purposes of the church, an apsewas built at the east end of the cella, and the entrancewas moved to the west end. The building was also given