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PHIGALEtAN MARBLES. 192
Jupiter at Olympia, and was thus treated, according to
the brief account of Pausanias (v. 10), by Alcamenes,
a contemporary of Phidias: " In the pediment (AstoI)
is the combat of the Lapitha? and Centaurs at the
marriage of Pirithous : in the centre of the pediment
is Pirithous, and On one side of him Eurytion carrying
off the wife of Pirithous, and Caaneus helping Piri-
thous: on the other side Theseus is defending him-
self against two Centaurs with an axe, one of whom
is carrying off a virgin, and the other a youth."
No. 8. This tablet has suffered considerable in-
jury. It represents a Centaur holding up a stone
with both hands, and preparing to hurl it at a
Lapitha, who protects himself with his shield, and
in his right hand also carries a stone. Behind the
Centaur is a female bearing a child within her right
arm; she appears as if flying from a pursuer. The
child is clinging to the drapery of the right breast.
No. 9. Two Lapithae and two Centaurs engaged
in combat. One of the Lapithse is strangling the
Centaur whom he has vanquished. The other holds
his adversary by the hair of the head with his left
hand, whilst he strikes a blow with his right. The
Lapitha grasps in his right hand the handle of a
sword, and the Centaur is putting his left hand on
his back to protect himself.
No. 10. From the circumstance of a lion's skin
hanging upon the bough of a tree in one corner of
'his tablet, Mr. Combe considered that the marble
represented Theseus taking vengeance on Eurytion
for the gross insult he had offered to Hippodamia,
who, fallen upon her knees and clinging in terror
to a sacred image, had been disrobed by the Cen-
taur. The female in front is considered as Hippo-
damia's bridal attendant. From the action of the
r"ght hand of Theseus, he seems to have been fighting
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Jupiter at Olympia, and was thus treated, according to
the brief account of Pausanias (v. 10), by Alcamenes,
a contemporary of Phidias: " In the pediment (AstoI)
is the combat of the Lapitha? and Centaurs at the
marriage of Pirithous : in the centre of the pediment
is Pirithous, and On one side of him Eurytion carrying
off the wife of Pirithous, and Caaneus helping Piri-
thous: on the other side Theseus is defending him-
self against two Centaurs with an axe, one of whom
is carrying off a virgin, and the other a youth."
No. 8. This tablet has suffered considerable in-
jury. It represents a Centaur holding up a stone
with both hands, and preparing to hurl it at a
Lapitha, who protects himself with his shield, and
in his right hand also carries a stone. Behind the
Centaur is a female bearing a child within her right
arm; she appears as if flying from a pursuer. The
child is clinging to the drapery of the right breast.
No. 9. Two Lapithae and two Centaurs engaged
in combat. One of the Lapithse is strangling the
Centaur whom he has vanquished. The other holds
his adversary by the hair of the head with his left
hand, whilst he strikes a blow with his right. The
Lapitha grasps in his right hand the handle of a
sword, and the Centaur is putting his left hand on
his back to protect himself.
No. 10. From the circumstance of a lion's skin
hanging upon the bough of a tree in one corner of
'his tablet, Mr. Combe considered that the marble
represented Theseus taking vengeance on Eurytion
for the gross insult he had offered to Hippodamia,
who, fallen upon her knees and clinging in terror
to a sacred image, had been disrobed by the Cen-
taur. The female in front is considered as Hippo-
damia's bridal attendant. From the action of the
r"ght hand of Theseus, he seems to have been fighting
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