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In arranging the slabs xxxi. to xxiv. the order proposed
by Michaelis has been followed. He places xxiv. at the
head of the procession of horsemen, assuming that No. 54,
who is a little in advance, is leading the cavalcade, and
that the chariots were immediately in front of him. This
assumption is now proved to be right, because it has
been recently discovered that the fragment of an apobates,
(No. 53) for which a place has long been wanting, belongs to
the left side of xxiv., supplying the joint on this side. If
we apply this joint to the right-hand joint of slab xxiii.,
the last in the procession of chariots, we find on the broken
margin the right arm and head of an apobates corre-
sponding sufficiently in action with the fragment No. 53,
to make it probable that they belong to one and the same
figure. It is however possible that another chariot group
intervened between xxiii. and xxiv., to the apobates of
which the arm and shield on xxiv. belonged, and this
missing chariot group may have been sculptured on the
right side of slab xxiii., which may very well have been
originally twice its present length. The right hand of
the rider No. 56 and the head of a horse beyond are added
in plaster from the original fragment in Athens. The
fragment xxv. is the only remnant of a slab which in
Stuart's time was at Athens, and which is engraved in his
Antiquities of Athens (ii. c. i. pi. 12). Its original position
was between xxiv. and xxvi., whence it has been trans-
ferred through want of space. According to the note in
Stuart's Athens (2nd edition, i. p. 50, note 6), this frag-
ment was in the possession of the Society of Dilettanti
long before Lord Elgin's mission to Athens.
Next comes a lacune, where space must be allowed for
one missing slab, and further on another lacune, where we
must supply another missing slab. There are two un-
appropriated fragments, the one containing No. 69, and
part of the drapery of No. 68, and the other containing
In arranging the slabs xxxi. to xxiv. the order proposed
by Michaelis has been followed. He places xxiv. at the
head of the procession of horsemen, assuming that No. 54,
who is a little in advance, is leading the cavalcade, and
that the chariots were immediately in front of him. This
assumption is now proved to be right, because it has
been recently discovered that the fragment of an apobates,
(No. 53) for which a place has long been wanting, belongs to
the left side of xxiv., supplying the joint on this side. If
we apply this joint to the right-hand joint of slab xxiii.,
the last in the procession of chariots, we find on the broken
margin the right arm and head of an apobates corre-
sponding sufficiently in action with the fragment No. 53,
to make it probable that they belong to one and the same
figure. It is however possible that another chariot group
intervened between xxiii. and xxiv., to the apobates of
which the arm and shield on xxiv. belonged, and this
missing chariot group may have been sculptured on the
right side of slab xxiii., which may very well have been
originally twice its present length. The right hand of
the rider No. 56 and the head of a horse beyond are added
in plaster from the original fragment in Athens. The
fragment xxv. is the only remnant of a slab which in
Stuart's time was at Athens, and which is engraved in his
Antiquities of Athens (ii. c. i. pi. 12). Its original position
was between xxiv. and xxvi., whence it has been trans-
ferred through want of space. According to the note in
Stuart's Athens (2nd edition, i. p. 50, note 6), this frag-
ment was in the possession of the Society of Dilettanti
long before Lord Elgin's mission to Athens.
Next comes a lacune, where space must be allowed for
one missing slab, and further on another lacune, where we
must supply another missing slab. There are two un-
appropriated fragments, the one containing No. 69, and
part of the drapery of No. 68, and the other containing