Smith, Arthur H. [Hrsg.]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 1) (London, 1892)

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

now remains of the Lapith is a portion of the right wrist
attached to the Centaur near his throat. A skin, fastened
round the Centaur's neck, flies behind his hack, falling
over his left upper arm.

Mus. Marbles, VII., pi. 5 ; Michaelis, pi. 3, v.; Stereoscopic, No. 83.

309. In this metope, as drawn by Carrey (fig. 9), the right arm
of the Lapith is raised with the forearm bent; the right
hand, which probably held a sword, was already broken
off in Carrey's time. His drawing gives the head and
part of the right upper arm of the Centaur, and the left
leg and half the right leg of the Lapith, but not his head.
The Centaur, while pressing his left hand on the left
shoulder of the Lapith, draws back a little from the blow
with which he is menaced. The action of both figures
is rather tame, and the victory undecided. An ample
chlamys is shown falling at the back of the Lapith.
Part of the right hind leg of the Centaur has been
added in plaster from the marble fragment now at
Athens.

Mus. Marbles, VII., pi. 15 ; Michaelis, pi. 3, vi.; Stereoscopic, No. 84.

310. The Lapith presses forward, advancing his left hand to
seize the rearing Centaur by the throat, and forcing him
on his haunches; the right arm of the Lapith is drawn
back, as if about to strike ; his right hand, now wanting,
probably held a sword : a mantle fastened on the right
shoulder falls over the left arm like a shield, and flies
back behind. The Centaur, rearing up against his
antagonist, tries in vain to pull away the left hand of the
Lapith, which, in Carrey's drawing, he grasps. The head
of the Centaur is a cast from the original at Athens.
From the shoulders of the Centaur hangs a small
chlamys; the folds fly behind, and show the violence and
swiftness of the action. The head of the Lapith is a cast