Combe, Taylor [Editor]: A description of the collection of ancient Marbles in the British Museum: with engravings (Band 7) (London, 1835)

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either side ; those in the eastern front seemed to relate
to the actions of Minerva, or of the principal Athe-
nian heroes, and were all in existence at the time of
Lord Elgin's arrival; the designs were still traceable,
but the workmanship being very much mutilated, no
attempt was made to remove them. In the western
front two were quite obliterated, but from the rest it
was ascertained that the subjects throughout were
alternately a horseman with a prostrate pedestrian,
and two combatants on foot, referring probably to the
Athenian victory over the Persians at Marathon; all
these were much injured, and were left in their places.

On the north side, twenty were destroyed by the
explosion of the magazine during the Venetian siege,
and the subjects of two others are now quite obli-
terated; of the remaining ten, one only, the nearest
to the western angle, is well preserved; it represents
a woman draped, holding a large veil with both hands,
and standing before. a draped figure seated upon a
rock; from the designs of the others, they all appear
to have reference to the wars of the Amazons. None
of these were removed.

On the south side, the Metopes, even in the time