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PLATE XLIV.

[ Length, 4 f. Old No. 15*. New No. 83. ]

Under the description of plate VIII. occasion was taken to
mention those figures which Carrey's drawings represented as
marching in the procession between the victims and the chariots.
Amongst them were musicians playing upon lyres and flutes, and
followed by persons probably swelling the chorus of praise to the
virgin goddess by the loud harmony of their voices. Recurring to
the same valuable authority, we find that immediately preceding
the chariots in this part of the frieze is a crowd of men, several of
whom appear to be aged and bearded ; they do not carry any
thing in their hands, and what their occupation may be is very
doubtful; they occupy a position corresponding to that of the
supposed chorus singers in the other line of the procession, and
such parts they may, therefore, be supposed to fill in this division ;
they are all clothed in the pallium, similar in form to that worn
by the magistrates or superintendents of the procession. Of this
portion of the frieze we have not any thing more than the frag-
ment represented in this plate; it presents no object very re-
markable, the draperies are gracefully disposed, but the surface
of the stone is so much corroded, that the right arm of the prin-
cipal figure had at first escaped the notice of our artist; indeed,
except in a peculiar state of the light, the form can scarcely be
discerned, even after attention has been directed towards it.
Immediately preceding these male figures was a group of females,
bearing in their hands what appear to have been tablets or
scrolls, perhaps the hymns or 7rpo<r6doi which were chanted
on the way in honour of the goddess. The representations
of Carrey were however so rude and ill defined, that we