Smith, Arthur H.; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: A Catalogue of the sculptures of the Parthenon, in the British Museum (London, 1900)

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year 1801 to obtain extended powers, under which he
■was permitted to remove the original sculptures. The
collection thus formed, which includes, besides many of
the sculptures of the Parthenon, other marbles obtained
from Athens and elsewhere, together with casts and
drawings, was purchased from Lord Elgin by the British
Government in 1816 for £35,000. Several portions of
the sculptures of the Parthenon have been discovered
since the time of Lord Elgin on the Acropolis and its
slopes, or in various parts of Europe, to which they had
been taken by travellers. These are represented as far
as possible in the British Museum by plaster casts.

The following aids to the study of the Parthenon will
be found in the Elgin Boom :—

Model of the Athenian Acropolis, by H. Walger (1898),
showing the results of recent excavations.

Model of the Parthenon. The model was made by
B. C. Lucas, on the scale of one twentieth, and represents
the state of the temple in 1687, after the explosion, but
before Morosini had attacked the west pediment.

Carrey's drawings of the pediments. Photographic
reproductions of the originals are exhibited. (See also
pi. III).

A restored view of the Athenian Acropolis. By Bi chard
Bohn.

A view of the Parthenon in 1802. By Sir E. Smirke.

Bibliography of the Parthenon.

The work of Hichaelis, Der Parthenon (Leipsic, 1871), collects the
material fox the study of the Parthenon, and contains an excel-
lent digest ef all that had been written on the subject up to the
year 1871. For later writers, see below passim, and Wolters.
For the name Parthenon, see Furtwaengler (Meistertrerke,
p. 172) who connects the word with the daughters of
Erechtheus. For the chronology of Pheidias, see Loeschcke in
Untersuchungen A. Schaefer gewidrnet, p. 25; for the question