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

FRAGMENTS OF PARTHENON METOPES. 205to Museum Marbles, Part vii., and was drawn by Carrey,who gives the whole metope as a youth raising his handsin astonishment, and a woman with a casket.Michaelis, pi. 3, xiv. ; Synopsis, No. 319 (143).3. Metope XVI. The head and trunk of a figure whohas fallen in a combat between two men. The trunkwas one of the Elgin fragments, and is also engraved inthe vignette to Museum Marbles, Part vii. The head wasformerly at Chatsworth, and was presented to the Museumby the Duke of Devonshire in 1859. Carrey gives theposition of the head of the fallen figure very accurately.Synopsis, No. 323 (294); Michaelis, pi. 3, xvi.4. Metope XX. Left thigh of female figure with clingingdrapery, standing turned to the left.The following fragments are either of doubtful orunknown origins. Probably they are all derived frommetopes on the south side.5. Left breast of draped female figure. South side, MetopeNo. XIII. ?Synopsis, No. 302 (132) ; Michaelis, pi. 4, fig. K.6. Fragment of right arm from the wrist to above theelbow, which is bent ; above the wrist is attached acorner of drapery. Presented by M. Dubois, 1840. Southside, Metope No. XV. ?7. Fragment of right arm from the wrist to the elbow,placed across the breast and left shoulder, with folds ofdrapery hanging as if from the hand. South side.Metope No. XIX. ?Synopsis, No. 305 (136).8. Fragment of left arm from the wrist to near the elbow.Synopsis, No. 306 (137).