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ROOM XV. 
Antiquities. 
FIITEENTH ROOM. 
<All the articles contained in this Hoorn belonged 
to the Karl of KIgin. 
No. 1—15. Fifteen of the metopes belonging 
to the Parthenon, which^ alternateiv witli the tri- 
glyphs, ornamented the frieze of the entablature 
surmounting the colonnade: they represent the 
battle between the Centaurs and Lapithee, or rather 
between the Centaurs and Athenians, who undei* 
Theseus joined the Lapithre (a people of Thessaly) 
in this contest. In some of these sculptures the 
Centaurs are victorious, in others the xMhenians 
have the advantage, while in otliers again the vic¬ 
tory seems doubtful with respect to either of the 
combatants. These magnihcent specimens of an¬ 
cient art are executed with great spirit, in alto- 
relievo ; they were seen at a height of nearly forty- 
four feet from the 2Tound. 
No. 16. A plaster cast of the metope. No. 7. 
No. 15^^—62. The exterior frieze of the Celia of 
the Parthenon, which embeilislied the upper part 
of the walls, within the colonnade, at the height 
of the frieze of the Pronaos, and which was con¬ 
tinued in an uninterrupted series of sculpture en¬ 
tirely round the temple. It is in very low relief. 
Tlie subject represents the sacred procession which 
took 
