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51 THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
other end of the same wall of the Elgin room, opposite
to the second, third, and fourth metopes of the
Parthenon, numbered 150 to 187. The height is the
same with that of the sculptures of the eastern frieze,
2 ft. 9 in. "
Number 150 represents a Centaur hurling a ponde-
rous stone upon a Lapitha whom he has trampled down.
Number 151 represents a Centaur bearing the stem
of a tree upon his shoulders: a Lapitha behind him.
Number 152 represents the death of Casneus, who,
according to the fable related by Ovid, had received
the gift from Neptune of being invulnerable by wea-
pons. He is half sunk in the earth, resisting, under
a shield, the weight of a mass of rock which is pressed
upon him by two Centaurs. , A similar mode of treat-
ing this subject will hereafter be observed in one of
the sculptures of the frieze from the temple of Apollo
Epicurius at Phigaleia.
Numbers 153 and 154 relate to the- same combat
of the Centaurs and Lapitha?.
The casts of the metopes Mr. Combe referred to
the history of Theseus. He considered the first,
No. 155, to represent Theseus killing Creon, king of
Thebes; the second, No. 156, Theseus overcoming
Cercyon, king of Eleusis, in a wrestling match ; and
the third, No. 157, Theseus killing the boar of Cromyoii.
Stuart designated the second of these as Hercules and
Antffius.
other end of the same wall of the Elgin room, opposite
to the second, third, and fourth metopes of the
Parthenon, numbered 150 to 187. The height is the
same with that of the sculptures of the eastern frieze,
2 ft. 9 in. "
Number 150 represents a Centaur hurling a ponde-
rous stone upon a Lapitha whom he has trampled down.
Number 151 represents a Centaur bearing the stem
of a tree upon his shoulders: a Lapitha behind him.
Number 152 represents the death of Casneus, who,
according to the fable related by Ovid, had received
the gift from Neptune of being invulnerable by wea-
pons. He is half sunk in the earth, resisting, under
a shield, the weight of a mass of rock which is pressed
upon him by two Centaurs. , A similar mode of treat-
ing this subject will hereafter be observed in one of
the sculptures of the frieze from the temple of Apollo
Epicurius at Phigaleia.
Numbers 153 and 154 relate to the- same combat
of the Centaurs and Lapitha?.
The casts of the metopes Mr. Combe referred to
the history of Theseus. He considered the first,
No. 155, to represent Theseus killing Creon, king of
Thebes; the second, No. 156, Theseus overcoming
Cercyon, king of Eleusis, in a wrestling match ; and
the third, No. 157, Theseus killing the boar of Cromyoii.
Stuart designated the second of these as Hercules and
Antffius.