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has recently been added. The wine vessel in this metope,
and the hydria in No. 307, indicate the wedding feast of
Peirithoos as the scene of the contest.

Mus. Marbles, VII., pi. 4; Michaelis, pi. 3, ix.; Stereoscopic, No. 87.

313. This metope is a cast from the one removed by Choiseul-
Gouffier when French ambassador at the Porte, about the
year 1787, and now in the Louvre. The group represents
a Centaur carrying off a Lapith wife or maiden. The
Centaur is rearing up; he grasps the woman between his
forelegs. His left hand presses against her left side, and
it appears from Carrey's drawing of this metope that his
right hand grasped her right wrist. With her left hand
she is vainly endeavouring to loosen his grasp round her
waist, and to readjust her disordered drapery. She wears a
chiton with diploi'dion fastened on the right shoulder with
a brooch. In the struggle the chiton has fallen from the
left shoulder. On her right foot is a sandal with a thick
sole ; her left foot is broken off above the ankle. Carrey's
drawing gives this foot resting on a rock, also other parts
of the group which are now wanting.

Mus. Marbles, VII., pi. 16; Michaelis, pi. 3, x.; Stereoscopic, No. 88.

The next metope in order on the Parthenon is now
only preserved in Carrey's drawing, which represents
a Lapith armed with a shield, who seems to be stabbing
the Centaur in the belly. The Centaur grasps the edge
of the shield with his left hand. A fragment of this
shield with the left arm of the Lapith inside and the
fingers of the Centaur on the rim exists at Athens ; cf.
No. 343, 1.

Michaelis, pi. 3, xi.

314. This metope is cast from the original in the Acropolis
Museum at Athens. It represents a Centaur seizing a Lapith