Category: History - Ancient
_Guide to Elgin Room I._ Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. The Sculptures of the Parthenon. Elgin Room, Part I. (Third ed.). 1886.
The temple is of the kind called _peripteral hexastyle_. Round the _cella_, or central chamber, is a single row of columns, thirty-four in number, of which there are six at each...
5. PART II.Three great names represent the early prime of Greek sculpture, namely, Myron, Pheidias, and Polycleitos of Argos. These three are thought to have been fellow pupils of the Argi...
4. PART I.The sculptures contained in the first section of this catalogue are derived from the site of Mycenae, the first four being fragments of important works of architecture. There is...
3. PART III.--THE SUCCESSORS OF PHEIDIAS._Guide to Elgin Room I._ Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. The Sculptures of the Parthenon. Elgin Room, Part I. (Third e...
8. viii. Michaelis is in error in marking a joint on the left of hisFragment with left foot wearing a shoe, from a draped figure moving to the left. The skirt falls just above the ankle. This may be a part of the figure on slab i., only preserve...
7. vii. The head was formerly at Chatsworth, and was presented toFragment of right arm from the wrist to above the elbow, which is bent; above the wrist is attached a corner of drapery. _Presented by M. Dubois, 1840._ South side, Metope No. XV.?
2. PART II.--MYRON AND PHEIDIAS.6. Part vii., and was drawn by Carrey, who gives the whole metopeMetope XVI. The head and trunk of a figure who has fallen in a combat between two men. The trunk was one of the Elgin fragments, and is also engraved in the vignette to _Museum...
1. PART I.--THE ARCHAIC PERIOD.