DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.15098#0283
187
PLATE XLV.
[ Length of each slab 4 f. Old Nos. 56, 55. New Nos. 81, 82. ]
Upon this side of the temple, as upon the other, the musicians
and the crowd, probably of choristers, are immediately followed
by the line of chariots, of which no drawings appear to have
been made by Pars or Stuart, but most of them seem to have
been noticed by Carrey, to whose arrangement we have con-
formed. His drawings exhibit eight chariots in this line of the pro-
cession, but the Museum possesses fragments only of five, and of
these one seems to be omitted by Carrey ; the horses of the two
first are standing perfectly quiet, and are followed by the two
which are represented upon the plate before us. His drawings of
this portion of the frieze, are more slight, and perhaps more
inaccurate, than those of most other parts; it is nevertheless
apparent that the marbles have sustained a great deal of injury,
since the drawings were executed. Of the two slabs repre-
sented in this plate, the first has suffered the most damage ; a
small part only of the surface still remains, but that little is
sufficient to establish the high character of the sculpture. This
chariot, like those on the other side, is occupied by a driver and
a person in armour, and attended by a magistrate in the usual
costume; in the other groups the apparatus for supporting the
poles of the chariots was sculptured in the marble, in these
there is not any appearance of such apparatus, but in some
cases there are rivet-holes, by which it would appear that it
was represented in metal ; there are also rivet-holes for the
reins, of which there were not any marks on the sculptures of the
opposite side of the temple. Four horses were attached to the
chariot upon this slab.
PLATE XLV.
[ Length of each slab 4 f. Old Nos. 56, 55. New Nos. 81, 82. ]
Upon this side of the temple, as upon the other, the musicians
and the crowd, probably of choristers, are immediately followed
by the line of chariots, of which no drawings appear to have
been made by Pars or Stuart, but most of them seem to have
been noticed by Carrey, to whose arrangement we have con-
formed. His drawings exhibit eight chariots in this line of the pro-
cession, but the Museum possesses fragments only of five, and of
these one seems to be omitted by Carrey ; the horses of the two
first are standing perfectly quiet, and are followed by the two
which are represented upon the plate before us. His drawings of
this portion of the frieze, are more slight, and perhaps more
inaccurate, than those of most other parts; it is nevertheless
apparent that the marbles have sustained a great deal of injury,
since the drawings were executed. Of the two slabs repre-
sented in this plate, the first has suffered the most damage ; a
small part only of the surface still remains, but that little is
sufficient to establish the high character of the sculpture. This
chariot, like those on the other side, is occupied by a driver and
a person in armour, and attended by a magistrate in the usual
costume; in the other groups the apparatus for supporting the
poles of the chariots was sculptured in the marble, in these
there is not any appearance of such apparatus, but in some
cases there are rivet-holes, by which it would appear that it
was represented in metal ; there are also rivet-holes for the
reins, of which there were not any marks on the sculptures of the
opposite side of the temple. Four horses were attached to the
chariot upon this slab.