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effect is produced by the contrast of the impetuous horses
and their calm, steadfast riders. In one place only do we
find a marshal (No. 65) directing the cavalcade. He turns
to the right, and with outstretched right arm seems to
beckon the throng behind to advance quicker. Among
the figures the following may be noted either for variety
of costume or other singularity. No. 105 wears a petasos
hanging at his neck behind. No. 109 wears a chiton with
long sleeves, which we also find in Nos. 98, 97, 84, 80, 75,
73, 57 ; such a garment, though characteristic of barbarians,
is unusual in Greek art. Nos. 96, 93, and 84, wear
the same flexible cap, with a flap protecting the nape
of the neck, which occurs in Nos. 8 and 15, on the West
frieze. Nos. 92 and 62 are armed with a cuirass; the
head of No. 62 is broken off, but he probably wore
the same kind of helmet as No. 92.
The head of No. 97 is bound with a plain band or diadem.
This head was formerly in the Pourtales Collection, at the
sale of which in 1865 it was purchased for the British
Museum, and inserted in its place on the frieze. The frag-
ment (in slab xxxii.) which contains the head of No. 75
and of a horse, after having been in the possession of the
Society of Dilettanti, passed from them to the Eoyal
Academy, by whom it was presented to the British Museum
in 1817. The fragment (in slab xxxv.) containing the head
of No. 85 and a horse's head, having been discovered in
1850 in the Collection of Sculptures at Marbury Hall in
Cheshire, was presented to the Museum by Mr. J. Smith
Barry, the owner of that collection. The fragment (in slab
xxxvii.) containing the head of No. 89 and a horse's head,
of which a plaster cast is adjusted to the marble, is now
at Athens. The other portions of this part of the frieze,
of which the originals are at Athens, are slabs xxix. and
xxxi., which were discovered about 1843 or 1844, and the
fragment xxx.
effect is produced by the contrast of the impetuous horses
and their calm, steadfast riders. In one place only do we
find a marshal (No. 65) directing the cavalcade. He turns
to the right, and with outstretched right arm seems to
beckon the throng behind to advance quicker. Among
the figures the following may be noted either for variety
of costume or other singularity. No. 105 wears a petasos
hanging at his neck behind. No. 109 wears a chiton with
long sleeves, which we also find in Nos. 98, 97, 84, 80, 75,
73, 57 ; such a garment, though characteristic of barbarians,
is unusual in Greek art. Nos. 96, 93, and 84, wear
the same flexible cap, with a flap protecting the nape
of the neck, which occurs in Nos. 8 and 15, on the West
frieze. Nos. 92 and 62 are armed with a cuirass; the
head of No. 62 is broken off, but he probably wore
the same kind of helmet as No. 92.
The head of No. 97 is bound with a plain band or diadem.
This head was formerly in the Pourtales Collection, at the
sale of which in 1865 it was purchased for the British
Museum, and inserted in its place on the frieze. The frag-
ment (in slab xxxii.) which contains the head of No. 75
and of a horse, after having been in the possession of the
Society of Dilettanti, passed from them to the Eoyal
Academy, by whom it was presented to the British Museum
in 1817. The fragment (in slab xxxv.) containing the head
of No. 85 and a horse's head, having been discovered in
1850 in the Collection of Sculptures at Marbury Hall in
Cheshire, was presented to the Museum by Mr. J. Smith
Barry, the owner of that collection. The fragment (in slab
xxxvii.) containing the head of No. 89 and a horse's head,
of which a plaster cast is adjusted to the marble, is now
at Athens. The other portions of this part of the frieze,
of which the originals are at Athens, are slabs xxix. and
xxxi., which were discovered about 1843 or 1844, and the
fragment xxx.