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1. Bearded man, woman with lyre'
Bearded man, woman with lyre'
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Terracotta relief plaque ('Melian relief'): a man with a female lyre-player; he grasps the lyre (barbiton) as though demanding her attention. --The British Museum, Burn, Lucilla; Higgins, Reynold; Walters, H B; Bailey, D M, Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1903
2. Ionic frieze, Parthenon
Ionic frieze, Parthenon
Description
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
3. Bearded man, woman with lyre'
Bearded man, woman with lyre'
Description
Terracotta relief plaque ('Melian relief'): a man with a female lyre-player; he grasps the lyre (barbiton) as though demanding her attention. --The British Museum, Burn, Lucilla; Higgins, Reynold; Walters, H B; Bailey, D M, Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1903
4. Ionic Freeze
Ionic Freeze
Description
Marble relief (Block XLVII) from the North frieze of the Parthenon. The frieze shows the procession of the Panathenaic festival, the commemoration of the birthday of the goddess Athena. Like the southern branch of the procession, the northern branch comprises mounted horsemen, chariots, elders, musicians, pitcher-bearers, tray-bearers and figures leading sacrificial victims. As in the South frieze, so in the North the cavalcade comprised sixty riders. Whereas in the South these are carved over twenty-four blocks, in the North they are compressed into nineteen blocks. The groups of riders are not divided equally, as they are in the South. Dress varies from figure to figure. Some are heavily draped in mantle and tunic, while others are all but naked. Some ride bareheaded, while others wear a distinctive form of cap or a helmet. Metal reins, which are now lost, were inserted in drill-holes. Block XLVII shows a scene of preparation for the cavalcade that lies ahead, echoing the major theme of the West frize. Its return on the West side is carved with a marshal. On the right a boy, wearing drapery over his shoulder, is tying a girdle around the waist of the waiting horseman, dressed in a tunic. The heads of the youth and the boy are both dipped, just as the head of the horse, waiting patiently by. On the left a figure, wearing a cloak, stands by his horse, which he restrains with his right arm, while his left is raised to the head with the index finger extended. His head is turned back to his unprepared companions. A fragment, the horse’s head, is in the Acropolis Museum, Athens. --The British Museum, 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
5. Erechtheion
Erechtheion
Description
Marble slab from the ornamental band (epicranitis) running round the top of the outside walls of the Erechtheion. --The British Museum, Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892
6. Nereid Monument
Nereid Monument
Description
The Nereid Monument takes its name from the Nereids, sea-nymphs whose statues were placed between the columns of this monumental tomb. It was built for Erbinna (Greek Arbinas), ruler of Lycian Xanthos, south-west Turkey. Although he was not Greek, Erbinna chose to be buried in a tomb that resembles a Greek temple of the Ionic order. --The British Museum
7. Nereid Monument
Nereid Monument
Description
The Nereid Monument takes its name from the Nereids, sea-nymphs whose statues were placed between the columns of this monumental tomb. It was built for Erbinna (Greek Arbinas), ruler of Lycian Xanthos, south-west Turkey. Although he was not Greek, Erbinna chose to be buried in a tomb that resembles a Greek temple of the Ionic order. --The British Museum
8. Peleus and Thetis (terracotta)
Peleus and Thetis (terracotta)
Description
erracotta relief plaque ('Melian relief') with Peleus and Thetis. A lion indicates one of Thetis's transformations. --The British Museum, Burn, Lucilla; Higgins, Reynold; Walters, H B; Bailey, D M, Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1903
9. Juno and Jupiter, Parthenon Frieze (Hera and Zeus?)
Juno and Jupiter, Parthenon Frieze (Hera and Zeus?)
Description
Marble relief (Block V) from the East frieze of the Parthenon. The frieze shows the procession of the Panathenaic festival, the commemoration of the birthday of the goddess Athena. This Block shows five gods and five figures involved in a ritual. On the left of the Block stands Iris, who arranges her hair. The surviving fragment of her head is in the Acropolis Museum, Athens. Hera sits in front of Iris and makes the bridal gesture of holding out her veil. By the side of Hera, Zeus leans over the back of a throne. In his right hand he holds a sceptre or thunderbolt. As father of gods, his seat is distinguished from those of the other gods, who occupy simple stools. The arm-rest is supported by a miniature sphinx. On the extreme right of the Block, Athena is shown seated with Hephaestus. In her lap can be seen the snake fringe of the aegis, which the goddess wore for protection. Drill-holes on her right side indicate the line of her spear. Hephaestus is heavily muscled but supports his right side with a crutch under the arm. Between the two ranks of seated gods a group of five figures is involved in a ritual which has to do with the piece of cloth held up by a man and a child. This is thought to be the peplos of Athena, dedicated on the occasion of the Panathenaic festival. The man wears the long unbelted tunic of a priest and is usually identified with the chief magistrate and overseer of Athenian state religion, Archon Basileus. The child is probably a boy and may be identified as a temple-server. The woman with her back to the priest is likely to be the priestess of Athena Polias, goddess of the city. She is about to receive the cushioned stool carried by the girl approaching her. Another girl approaches behind the first, carrying both a stool and, on her left arm, a footstool. This last is much damaged but the unmistakable paw-shaped foot of one leg is preserved. The central Block of the East frieze was placed over the approach to the East doorway of the temple that gave access to the statue of the goddess within. The Block was removed during the Christian re-use of the Parthenon as a church. It was not destroyed, however, and survived on the Acropolis built into a wall, where it was found and rescued by Lord Elgin’s men. For more information on the pedestrian-procession see East frieze Block III. --The British Museum, Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892; Jenkins, Ian, The Parthenon Frieze, London, BMP, 1994
10. Erechtheion
Erechtheion
Description
Pentelic marble caryatid from the Erechtheion. This is one of six caryatids that held up the roof of the Erechtheion. She wears a peplos pinned on each shoulder. Her hair is braided and falls in a thick rope down her back. She probably held a sacrificial vessel in one of the missing hands. The figure strongly resembles the women of the east frieze of the Parthenon, which had just been completed when work on the Erechtheion began. She carries an architectural capital like a basket on her head. The weight she bears is taken on the right leg, encased in perpendicular folds. The other leg is flexed with the drapery moulded to it. --The British Museum, Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892
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