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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the same way as the Southern cavalcade. Nos. 1-4
all wear a chiton and cJdamys, and a leather cap with a
flap, katablema, hanging over the nape of the neck. The
end hanging down the back of No. 5 may be this flap,
but it is more like part of a skin.

MARBLE FRAGMENTS FROM THE
PEDIMENTAL SCULPTURES.

1. Fragment of colossal head. According to Hamilton's
Memorandum, this fragment was discovered built into a
Turkish house at the West front of the temple. It in-
cludes the upper part of the right cheek, both eyes, nearly
all the forehead, and the hair over the right side of the
face. The sockets of the eyes are hollow, and must
have once contained eyes composed of ivory, precious
stones, or enamel. (An ivory eye which must have be-
longed to a colossal statue was found in the temple of
Athene at iEgina and is engraved in Cockerell, Temples
at iEgina and Bassse, pi. xii. 4.) The top of the head
behind the hair is a plane surface, worked apparently for
a horizontal joint such as might have been required for
the adjustment of a helmet in metal. The hair is wrought
in strongly marked snaky waves, like that of Medusa, and
the brow is rendered in a hard conventional manner.
This general harshness of style, which is not in accordance
with the pedimental sculptures, has led Michaelis to doubt
whether this fragment really belongs to the Parthenon.
The surface of the marble is highly polished, and traces
of red colour have been remarked in the hair. This
fragment was formerly thought to belong to the Athene
of the Western pediment, to which its scale would
correspond, though there are no other grounds for this
attribution (Museum Marbles, vi., pi. 16; Michaelis, pi. 8,
fig. 14).

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