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the left are two fallen Amazons and the lower part of a
third figure probably that of a Greek ; the left leg of
another figure is seen beside the left arm of the upper of
the two Amazons. All the Amazons on the shield wear
high boots and a short chiton, leaving the right breast ex-
posed ; their weapon is a double headed axe. Red colour
remains on the two serpents which encircle the Gorgon's
head, on the shield of one of the Greeks and in several
places of the draperies. This shield was obtained in
Athens by Percy Clinton, Yiscount Strangford, from whose
son it was acquired by the Museum. There is a fragment
of a similar marble shield in the Vatican. (Michaelis,
pi. 15, Nos. 34, 35 ; Conze, Arch. Zeit. 1865, pll. 196-197).
2. Marble fragment consisting of the back half of a
female head which has been split vertically. The hair is
bound twice round with a narrow diadem, and has been
gathered back from the temples and tied in a knot at the
roots behind. The knot is broken away. This head has
a worked joint across the neck, and has been attached by
means of a dowel, the hole of which remains. It is
doubtful whether this fragment has belonged to the
Parthenon.
3. Cast of marble statuette supposed to be a copy from
the chryselephantine statue of Athene by Pheidias within
the Parthenon. Athene wears a helmet, aegis, and talaric
chiton with diploidion girt round the waist; her right
hand is extended- in„front with the palm open uj)wards
as if to hold out the figure of Victory. In this part the
statuette is unfinished, the marble underneath the right
arm not having been hewn away. The left hand of the
Goddess rests on her shield, which stands on its edge
at her side; inside the shield is a serpent; outside are
reliefs representing a battle between Greeks and Amazons.
Among the attitudes in this composition which may be
recognised as the same as in the marble shield already
the left are two fallen Amazons and the lower part of a
third figure probably that of a Greek ; the left leg of
another figure is seen beside the left arm of the upper of
the two Amazons. All the Amazons on the shield wear
high boots and a short chiton, leaving the right breast ex-
posed ; their weapon is a double headed axe. Red colour
remains on the two serpents which encircle the Gorgon's
head, on the shield of one of the Greeks and in several
places of the draperies. This shield was obtained in
Athens by Percy Clinton, Yiscount Strangford, from whose
son it was acquired by the Museum. There is a fragment
of a similar marble shield in the Vatican. (Michaelis,
pi. 15, Nos. 34, 35 ; Conze, Arch. Zeit. 1865, pll. 196-197).
2. Marble fragment consisting of the back half of a
female head which has been split vertically. The hair is
bound twice round with a narrow diadem, and has been
gathered back from the temples and tied in a knot at the
roots behind. The knot is broken away. This head has
a worked joint across the neck, and has been attached by
means of a dowel, the hole of which remains. It is
doubtful whether this fragment has belonged to the
Parthenon.
3. Cast of marble statuette supposed to be a copy from
the chryselephantine statue of Athene by Pheidias within
the Parthenon. Athene wears a helmet, aegis, and talaric
chiton with diploidion girt round the waist; her right
hand is extended- in„front with the palm open uj)wards
as if to hold out the figure of Victory. In this part the
statuette is unfinished, the marble underneath the right
arm not having been hewn away. The left hand of the
Goddess rests on her shield, which stands on its edge
at her side; inside the shield is a serpent; outside are
reliefs representing a battle between Greeks and Amazons.
Among the attitudes in this composition which may be
recognised as the same as in the marble shield already