Parthenon metope
- Title
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Parthenon metope
- Repository
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British Museum
- Alternative
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The Parthenon Sculptures
Sculpture 320
- Creator
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Pheidias
- Photographer
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Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
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Phidias (Greek designer, ca. 490-430 BCE)
- Description
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Marble metope from the Parthenon (South metope XXXI). This metope is from the eastern half of the south side of the temple. The South metopes in the British Museum show the battle between Centaurs and Lapiths at the marriage-feast of Peirithoos. A Centaur, on the left, and a Lapith tussle like two wrestlers. The Lapith has seized the Centaur by the hair with his right hand, pressing his right knee on the Centaur’s breast, his left arm is drawn back. The Centaur, rearing up, grasps the Lapith by the throat, twisting his forelegs round the Lapith’s right leg. The Centaurs right arm, made separately, and right hind foreleg are missing, as are the Lapith’s left forearm and foot, and parts of the frame. --The British Museum
Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892; Smith, A, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, London, William Clowes and Sons, 1892; Choremi-Spetsieri, Alkistis, The Sculptures of the Parthenon: Acropolis, British Museum, Louvre, Athens, Ephesus Publishing, 2004; Brommer, Frank, Die Metopen des Parthenon, Mainz, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1967; Smith, A, The sculptures of the Parthenon, London, William Clowes and Sons, 1910; Berger, Ernst, Der Parthenon in Basel; Dokumentation zu den Metopen, Mainz, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1986
- View
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Front
- Coverage
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Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (creation)
Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (site)
- Temporal
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447-438 BCE
- Subject
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Kouroi--Lycippus
Parthenon
Phidias
Sculpture I
- Style Period
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Classical
- Work Type
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metopes
- Date
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-0447/-0438
- Identifier
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Lowenstam_VRC_03405
- Item Locator
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Box 8, Section 22-23
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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University of Oregon
- Local Collection Name
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Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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Thickness: 132 cm
- Material
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marble
- Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
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University of Oregon
- Id Current Repository
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1816,0610.15