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
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
Marble metope from the Parthenon (South metope XXVII). 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 young Lapith, on the left, holds a Centaur’s head from behind with his left hand, while preparing to deliver a blow with the other. The Centaur, wounded in the back, rears up and presses his right hand against the wound. A chlamys falls over both Lapith’s arms, hanging behind his back. Both heads, the Lapith’s foreleg and right forearm, and the Centaurs left arm and right leg are missing. Parts of the frame in the top left hand corner are restored. --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
Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892; enkins, Ian, The Parthenon Frieze, London, BMP, 1994
Marble metope from the Parthenon (South metope VII). The South metopes in The British Museum show the battle between Centaurs and Lapiths at the marriage-feast of Peirithoos. With his left hand a Lapith, on the left, grasps a Centaur. His right arm is drawn back and he probably once held a metal sword, now lost, in his hand, about to strike the Centaur. A chlamys fastened on his right shoulder falls over his left arm and flies out behind his back. The Centaur, rearing up, tries to pull away the Lapith’s left hand. From the shoulders of the Centaur hangs a small chlamys. The head of the Centaur is in the Acropolis Museum, Athens, and the Lapith’s head is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The Lapith’s hands, left foot and the right leg below the knee are missing. As are the Centaur’s left arm below the shoulder and part of his left hind leg 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
![[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection](/thumbnails/0/0/oregondigital-df6911600.jpg "[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection")
