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low relief. The subject represents the sacred pro- room xv. 
cession which took place at the great Panathe- Antiquities. 
naea, a festival which was celebrated every fifth 
year, at Athens, in honour of Minerva, the patron- 
| ess of the city. The bas-reliefs which compose 
this frieze are arranged as nearly as it could be 
ascertained, and was compatible with the construc¬ 
tion of the present room, in the same orderas they 
were originally placed in the Parthenon. Those 
on the principal front of the temple, namely 
the east, are placed first, then follow those of 
the north, and lastly those of the west and south: 
they are arranged, in short, in the same manner 
in which they would be seen by the spectator 
who approached the temple by the east, and 
walked round it by the north, west, and south. 
No. 15 —21. That portion of the above-men¬ 
tioned frieze which occupied the east end of the 
temple. On two of the slabs which compose this 
part of the frieze are represented divinities and 
deified heroes, seated; namely, Castor and Pol¬ 
lux, Ceres and Triptolemus, Jupiter and Juno, 
and Aesculapius and Hygeia. There was origi¬ 
nally a third slab, which represented four other 
divinities, also seated, but it has disappeared for 
many years. On the right and left of these sa¬ 
cred characters, are trains of females with their 
faces directed to the gods, to whom they are car¬ 
rying gifts; we see also directors or regulators 
of the procession, among whom are the officers 
whose duty it was to receive the presents that 
were 
