Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

PRINCIPAL METOPES OF THE SOUTHERN SIDE. 255

left knee, and with his left hand endeavouring to throttle the monster,
who has his mouth wide open gasping for breath. No. XXIX. (No. 14,

Fig. 97.

METOPE xxvii.

Fig. 98.

metope xxviii.

Brit. Mus.) (fig. 95) represents an old Centaur, the only one who has
the ears of a beast, carrying off a richly draped woman, and apparently