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

SOUTH FEIEZE OF PARTHENON. 185at Athens. This slab, which now only contains partsof the legs of two horses and a rider (No. 48) wasnearly complete in the time of Carrey and containedtwo riders wearing petasoi or broad-brimmed travellers'hats.61. In slab xxi. the head of the horse of No. 51 and the XXI.52. head and shoulders of No. 52 are supplied by casts fromoriginals at Athens. The fragment containing the head'''S.of No. 63, a figure wearing a petasos, does not appear inthe plate of Michaelis.Slab xxii. and slab xxiii., which, with the exception of XXII.,a small fragment, is only preserved in Carrey's drawings, XXIII.contained the leading horsemen of the procession.Thoseon slab xxii. are evidently pulling up their horses, whilethe two horsemen on slab xxiii. are going at a foot-pace.All the paces of the horse are thus displayed within ashort distance, at this part of the frieze. In slab xxii.a fragment containing a horse's head and the maneof another horse, which Michaelis assigns to the team onslab xxiv., has been sinceadjusted to its place in front ofNo. 66 ; to this has been fitted the small fragment of thecomer of slab xxiii.The horsemen are immediately preceded in the proces- XXIV.sion by the chariot-groups.Carrey draws eight chariots, XXXIV.of which four partially survive and four are totally lost.On the other hand, a part remains of two groups (slabxxix.), of which there is no trace in Carrey's drawings.These, therefore, must probably be placed in a break inthe sequence of slabs indicated by Carrey. Originallythere must have been not fewer than ten chariot groups.In each the charioteer is accompanied by an armedwarrior ; but here the armed figure is not like theapobates of the northern frieze in the act of steppingout of the chariot in motion, but stands either inthe quadriga or (if it is not in motion) by its side.