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136 CATALOGUE OP SCULPTURE.now remains of the Lapith is a portion of the right wristattached to the Centaur near his throat. A stin, fastenedround the Centaur's neck, flies behind his hack, fallingover his left upper arm.Mits. Marbles, VII., pi. 5 ; Michaelis, pi. 3, v. ; /Stereoscopic, No. 83.309. In this metope, as drawn hy Carrey (fig. 9), the right armof the Lapith is raised with the forearm hent ;the righthand, which probably held a sword, was already brokenoff in Carrey's time. His drawing gives the head andpart of the right upper arm of the Centaur, and the leftleg and half the right leg of the Lapith, but not his head.The Centaur, while pressing his left hand on the leftshoulder of the Lapith, draws back a little from the blowwith which he is menaced. The action of both figuresis rather tame, and the victory undecided. An amplechlamys is shown falling at the back of the Lapith.Part of the right hind leg of the Centaur has beenadded in plaster from the marble fragment now atAthens.Mus. Marbles, VII., pi. 15 ; Michaelis, pi. 3, vi. ; Stereoscopic, No. 84.310. The Lapith presses forward, advancing his left hand toseize the rearing Centaur by the throat, and forcing himon his haunches ; the right arm of the Lapith is drawnback, as if about to strike ;his right hand, now wanting,probably held a sword : a mantle fastened on the rightshoulder falls over the left arm like a shield, and fliesback behind. The Centaur, rearing up against hisantagonist, tries in vain to pull away the left hand of theLapith, which, in Carrey's drawing, he grasps. The headof the Centaur is a cast from the original at Athens.From the shoulders of the Centaur hangs a smallchlamys ; the folds fly behind, and show the violence andBwiftness of the action. The head of the Lapith is a cast