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NORTH FRIEZE OF PARTHENON. 173The next slab (xix.) is a cast from the original at XIX.Athens, which is broken away on the right, so that allthat remains of the charioteer (No. 47) is his right hand.At the side of the horses is a marshal (No. 46), who turnstowards the chariot following on the right. Carrey'sdrawing supplies the upper part of this figure, and showsthat he was holding up with his left hand the end of hismantle, apparently as a signal to the advancing procession.In fig.12, slab xix. has been drawn in juxtaposition withthe hitherto unplaced fragment No. 345, 12. This slabwas discovered in 1834.Slab XX. is now lost, but a horse's head now at Athens XX.(No. 345, 13 ; Michaelis, pi. 12, xx.) may perhaps belongto it.Slab xxi. contains the bodies and hind quarters of the XXI.Betweenhorses drawing the chariot seen on slab xxii.the charioteer (No. 48) and his horse is a fragment,showing the front of the chariot, and the tails of thehorses, of which the original isnot figured in Michaelis.at Athens, and which is48, 49. On the left of slab xxii. is a chariot with the charioteer XXII.(No. 48) and apobates (No, 49) who is stepping into thechariot. On the right of this slab is an attendant(No. 50) standing at the heads of the horses of the lastchariot group. The lower fragments of this slab are atAthens. The left-hand upper corner, which was wantingin the time of Stuart, was brought home by Lord Elgin.The upper fragment next to it, was once in the possessionof the Society of Dilettanti, and was presented by thatbody. It had probably been brought from Athens byChandler.Stuart, 2nd ed., II., p. 50, note C.The chariot group represented on slabs xxii., xxiii. is XXIII.represented as standing still, and was probably the last