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brutal ravisher is rearing up; his right foreleg, partially
concealed under the drapery of the female figure, presses
against her body at the level of the hip, while the knee of
his left foreleg presses against the back of her right knee.
His left hand presses against her left side just above the
hip, and it appears from Carrey's drawing of this metope
that his right hand grasped her right wrist. With her
left hand she is vainly endeavouring to loosen his grasp
round her waist, and to readjust her disordered drapery,
which in the struggle has been parted so as to leave the
left thigh bare. Her body inclines to the right. She is
clad in an ample chiton with diploidion fastened on the
right shoulder with a perone. In the struggle the chiton
has fallen from the left shoulder, leaving the greater part
of the bosom exposed. On her right foot is a sandal with
a thick sole; her left foot is broken off above the ankle.
Carrey's drawing gives this foot resting on a rock, also
the head, right arm, and right hindleg of the Centaur
below the hough, and the right hand of the female
figure, all of which are now wanting. (Mus. Marbles,
vii. pi. 16 ; Michaelis, pi. 3, x.)
The next metope in order on the Parthenon was one
now only preserved in Carrey's drawing, which represents
a Lapith armed with a shield, who seems to be stabbing
the Centaur in the belly. The Centaur grasps the edge of
the shield with his left hand. A fragment of this shield
with the left arm of the Lapith inside and the fingers
of the Centaur on the rim exists at Athens, and a cast
of it is exhibited in Wall-Case M in the Elgin Boom.
(Michaelis, pi. 3, xi.)
(10) This metope is cast from the original in the
museum at Athens. It represents a Centaur seizing a
Lapith wife or maiden. Carrey's drawing gives the head,
left foreleg from the knee, and left hindleg of the
Centaur, and the right arm of the female figure, all which
brutal ravisher is rearing up; his right foreleg, partially
concealed under the drapery of the female figure, presses
against her body at the level of the hip, while the knee of
his left foreleg presses against the back of her right knee.
His left hand presses against her left side just above the
hip, and it appears from Carrey's drawing of this metope
that his right hand grasped her right wrist. With her
left hand she is vainly endeavouring to loosen his grasp
round her waist, and to readjust her disordered drapery,
which in the struggle has been parted so as to leave the
left thigh bare. Her body inclines to the right. She is
clad in an ample chiton with diploidion fastened on the
right shoulder with a perone. In the struggle the chiton
has fallen from the left shoulder, leaving the greater part
of the bosom exposed. On her right foot is a sandal with
a thick sole; her left foot is broken off above the ankle.
Carrey's drawing gives this foot resting on a rock, also
the head, right arm, and right hindleg of the Centaur
below the hough, and the right hand of the female
figure, all of which are now wanting. (Mus. Marbles,
vii. pi. 16 ; Michaelis, pi. 3, x.)
The next metope in order on the Parthenon was one
now only preserved in Carrey's drawing, which represents
a Lapith armed with a shield, who seems to be stabbing
the Centaur in the belly. The Centaur grasps the edge of
the shield with his left hand. A fragment of this shield
with the left arm of the Lapith inside and the fingers
of the Centaur on the rim exists at Athens, and a cast
of it is exhibited in Wall-Case M in the Elgin Boom.
(Michaelis, pi. 3, xi.)
(10) This metope is cast from the original in the
museum at Athens. It represents a Centaur seizing a
Lapith wife or maiden. Carrey's drawing gives the head,
left foreleg from the knee, and left hindleg of the
Centaur, and the right arm of the female figure, all which