Parthenon metope
- Title
- Parthenon metope
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- The Parthenon Sculptures Sculpture 306
- Creator
- Pheidias
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- Phidias (Greek designer, ca. 490-430 BCE)
- Description
- Marble metope from the Parthenon (South metope III). The South metopes in The British Museum show the battle between Centaurs and Lapiths at the marriage-feast of Peirithoos. A Lapith, on the right, attacks a Centaur, from behind, resting his right knee on the Centaur’s hindquarters and extending his right arm to seize the Centaur’s neck. The upper body of the Centaur is turned back towards his attacker. An animal skin is wound around his left arm. A long chlamys hangs from the shoulders of the Lapith and he wears boots. Dowel holes, in his left side and at the junction of the chlamys, are visible and probably served for the attachment of metal weapons. The left arm and left foot of the Lapith, the Centaur’s right arm and three of his legs, and the heads of both figures and parts of the frame are missing. --The British Museum Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892; Smith, A, The sculptures of the Parthenon, London, William Clowes and Sons, 1910; Choremi-Spetsieri, Alkistis, The Sculptures of the Parthenon: Acropolis, British Museum, Louvre, Athens, Ephesus Publishing, 2004; Smith, A, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, London, William Clowes and Sons, 1892; Brommer, Frank, Die Metopen des Parthenon, Mainz, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1967; Berger, Ernst, Der Parthenon in Basel; Dokumentation zu den Metopen, Mainz, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1986
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (creation) Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (site)
- Temporal
- 447-438 BCE
- Subject
- Kouroi--Lycippus Parthenon Phidias Sculpture I
- Style Period
- Classical
- Work Type
- metopes
- Date
- -0447/-0438
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_03382
- Item Locator
- Box 8, Section 22-23
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Thickness: 129 cm
- Material
- marble
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Id Current Repository
- 1816,0610.2
