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

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

325. band on their heads; No. 25 draws it over his hair;
Nos. 28 and 30 wear long hair, plaited in the manner
of the h-obylos. The attire, elderly type, and general
deportment of these figures corresponds with that of the
Thallophori, by which name ancient authors designate
elderly citizens who carried olive branches in the Pana-
thenaic procession. The right hands of three of these
figures are closed, as if they were holding a wand or
branch.

Slab ix. was discovered in 1840, and is a fragment of
the slab drawn by Carrey, which, when he saw it, con-
tained nine figures similar to those on x. A recently-
discovered fragment, from the left of slab ix., has not been
inserted for want of space (cf. Plate viii., and No. 345, 8).

Slab x. was found at the north-west angle of the
Parthenon in 1835. A fragment which belongs to the
left-hand lower corner of the slab, and completes Nos. 24,
25, has been adjusted since the publication of the work of
Michaelis. This slab was not drawn by Carrey, who
indicates a lacuna at this point. It is therefore probable
that the slab had already fallen from its place. The last
two complete figures on this slab are looking back, as if
their attention is directed to the advancing; chariots.
Michaelis has not observed that between these figures and
the marshal (No. 31) there has been another draped figure
(No. 30*), of whom nothing remains but the shoulders
and a little drapery, shown immediately in front of the
marshal (No. 31), and his right foot on slab x., seen next
to the right foot of No. 30, the left foot of No. 30 being-
lost. This figure must have been the hindermost in the
procession of Thallophori, and the entire number of these
persons is therefore seventeen, not sixteen, as Michaelis
makes it.

With slab xi. the chariot groups begin. This part of XI.
the frieze has greatly suffered from mutilation. The
 
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