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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waist. She wears a split chiton with diploiidion 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. The left leg, treated as a restoration
by Clarac (pi. 147, no. 149) and Michaelis, is mended, but
original. Carrey's drawing gives the left foot resting
on a rock, also other parts of the group which are now
wanting.

Mm. Marbles. VII., pi. 16; Michaelis, pi. 3, x.; Brunn, Denkrnaeler,
No. 193 ; Stereoscopic, No. 88.

The next metope in order on the Parthenon is now only
preserved in Carrey's drawing, which represents a Lapith
araied 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. 3-43, 1.
Other fragments include the right arm of the Lapith, and
the hind quarters of the Centaur.

Michaelis, pi. 3, xi.; Malmberg, Ephemeris Arcliaiologike, 1894,
pis. 10, 11.

314. This metope is cast from the original in the Acropolis
Museum at Athens. It represents a Centaur seizing a Lapith
wife or maiden. Carrey's drawing gives the head, left
foreleg from the knee, and left hindleg of the Centaur,
and the right arm of the female figure, all which parts
are now wanting. The Centaur grasps the woman's left
arm with his left hand; his right arm, not shown, we
must suppose to be passing round the back of her waist.
While the left foreleg of the Centaur is firmly planted
on the ground, his right foreleg clasps the left leg of
the woman, pressing at the back of her knee, so as to