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diadema, on their heads, which No. 25 is drawing over his
hair. The himation in most of these figures is so arranged
as to leave the right shoulder and side hare. Both x. and
ix. are casts from the original marbles at Athens. Slab x.
was found at the north-west angle of the Parthenon in 1835.
A fragment which belongs to the left-hand lower corner
of this slab, and completes Nos. 24, 25, has been adjusted
since the publication of the work of Michaelis. Slab ix.
was discovered in 1840, and is a fragment of the slab
drawn by Carrey, which, when he saw it, contained nine
figures similar to those on x. The attire, elderly type,
and general deportment of these figures corresponds with
that of the Thattophori, by which name ancient authors
designate elderly citizens who carried olive branches in
the Panathenaic procession. The right hands of three of
these figures are closed, as if they were holding a wand or
branch. Michaelis places x. behind ix. because Nos. 29
and 30, the two last figures on this slab, are looking back,
and supposes that their attention is directed towards the
advancing horses on xi. But he does not notice that
between these figures and the marshal (No. 31) has been an-
other draped figure (No. 30*), of whom nothing remains but
the shoulders and a little drapery, shown immediately in
front of the marshal (No. 31), and his right foot on slab x.
seen behind the right foot of No. 30. This figure must
have been the hindermost in the procession of Thattophori ;
the foremost (No. 19) is sculptured on slab viii., his back
cut off at the joint. The entire number of these Thattophori
is therefore seventeen, not sixteen, as Michaelis makes it.
The Thattophori were preceded by a band of music, which, as
drawn by Carrey, consisted of four flute-players, Auleke,
followed by four players on the lyre, Kitharistce.
Slab viii., cast from the original at Athens, represents
part of the leader of the Thattophori (No. 19), a draped head-
less figure playing on a lyre (No. 18), and opposite to it the
hair. The himation in most of these figures is so arranged
as to leave the right shoulder and side hare. Both x. and
ix. are casts from the original marbles at Athens. Slab x.
was found at the north-west angle of the Parthenon in 1835.
A fragment which belongs to the left-hand lower corner
of this slab, and completes Nos. 24, 25, has been adjusted
since the publication of the work of Michaelis. Slab ix.
was discovered in 1840, and is a fragment of the slab
drawn by Carrey, which, when he saw it, contained nine
figures similar to those on x. The attire, elderly type,
and general deportment of these figures corresponds with
that of the Thattophori, by which name ancient authors
designate elderly citizens who carried olive branches in
the Panathenaic procession. The right hands of three of
these figures are closed, as if they were holding a wand or
branch. Michaelis places x. behind ix. because Nos. 29
and 30, the two last figures on this slab, are looking back,
and supposes that their attention is directed towards the
advancing horses on xi. But he does not notice that
between these figures and the marshal (No. 31) has been an-
other draped figure (No. 30*), of whom nothing remains but
the shoulders and a little drapery, shown immediately in
front of the marshal (No. 31), and his right foot on slab x.
seen behind the right foot of No. 30. This figure must
have been the hindermost in the procession of Thattophori ;
the foremost (No. 19) is sculptured on slab viii., his back
cut off at the joint. The entire number of these Thattophori
is therefore seventeen, not sixteen, as Michaelis makes it.
The Thattophori were preceded by a band of music, which, as
drawn by Carrey, consisted of four flute-players, Auleke,
followed by four players on the lyre, Kitharistce.
Slab viii., cast from the original at Athens, represents
part of the leader of the Thattophori (No. 19), a draped head-
less figure playing on a lyre (No. 18), and opposite to it the