British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Hrsg.]: The sculptures of the Parthenon: Elgin room (Band 1) (London, 1880)

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another hole between the collar-hones. The right arm
was probably advanced nearly in a horizontal direction;
the left arm may have had the elbow a little drawn back;
and a portion of the chlamys evidently passed round this
arm, and was probably twisted round it, a fashion of
drapery characteristic of Hermes. Among the fragments
of the Parthenon at Athens is a small piece of the left
shoulder of this figure, a cast of which has been adjusted
to the marble in the Museum. The remains of the left
thigh show that the left leg was advanced as in Carrey's
drawing. (Mus. Marbles, vi. pi. 15; Caldesi, No. 20.)

The accompanying table taken from Michaelis with some
additions shows the various schemes which have been
proposed for the interpretation of the western pedimental
composition.

METOPES.

The metopes of the Parthenon are sculptured blocks
which were inserted in the spaces, metopes, left between
the ends of the beams of the roof. These ends were
called triglyphi, from the three parallel vertical channels
cut in them. Eeference to the model of the Parthenon
will show the relative position of the metopes and
triglyphs. The sculpture of the metopes is in the
highest relief attainable in marble, large portions of some
of the figures being carved in the round so as to stand
out quite free of the background.

The Parthenon had originally ninety-two metopes,
thirty-two of which were -on each of the long sides, and
fourteen at each end. Many of these are now only pre-
served in the drawings by Carrey; others still remain on
the temple, but so decayed through time and weather
that there is great difficulty in making out their subject.
The British Museum possesses fifteen metopes brought