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186 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.327. Therefore Micliaelis supposes that, while the chariots onthe north frieze have reference to that contest in whicharmed apobatae took a part, leaping off and on to thequadriga during the race, the chariots in the south friezesuggest the chariots of war, harmata polemisteria, in whichan armed hoplite stood in the chariot by the side of thecharioteer. Each chariot group, when complete, is seento be accompanied bj' a marshal.Of the two figures in the chariot of slab xxiv., nothing XXIV.now remains but part of the shield and left arm of the58. hoplite (No. 58), with a fold of drapery hanging from thearm. The upper part of the slab was wanting in the timeof Carrey, but he gives the legs of the hoplite, who, likethe corresponding figure in slab xxv., was standing by thewheel of the chariot, of which a small portion remains.This position shows that both these chariots were representedat the moment before they started. In the shieldof No. 58 are two rivet holes for the attachment of abronze handle.In the upper hole the metal still remains.Similar rivet holes occur in the shields of Nos. 61 and 66.Michaelis supplies the heads of the horses on this slab bya fragment which belongs tothe cavalcade of horsemen.(See slab xxii., above.)The connection between slabs xxiv. and xxv. is provedby a fragment which has been added to the lower corneron the right of slab xxiv. since the work of Michaelis waspublished. This fragment, of which the original is atAthens, gives part of the wheel of the chariot of xxv. andthe forefeet of the horses of xxiv.In slabxxv. the horses' heads now wanting are given XXV.60. in Carrey's drawing. Of the charioteer (No. 60) verylittle is now visible but part of his drapery. The armed61. figure (No. 61) in this chariot group, whose appearanceis more youthful than that of the other hoplites in thispart of the frieze, wears a chiton with a double girdle