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were allowed to take part in the procession. They carry on their 
shoulders a kind of tray filled with cakes and other articles. The re¬ 
mainder of this part of the frieze represents charioteers and horsemen. 
Among the latter are seven slabs, ( Nos, 37—43,) which, whether we 
consider the elegance of the compositions,, or the spirit with which the 
figures of the men and* horses are executed, present us with the highest 
effort of the art of sculpture in the class of low relief. No. 46 having 
been placed at the south-west corner of the temple, the figure sculptured 
at the end of it belongs to that part of the procession which decorated 
the west end of the cella. It is repeated in plaster, that the whole of 
the western* frieze may be seen by the spectator at one view. (22, 
24, 23, 34, 98, 177*, 35, 35*, 37, 178*, 36, 35**, 38, 25, 26, 27, 28, 
29, 30, 31, 38*, 32, 33.) The portions No. 25a, No. 25e, No. 26a, 
No. 26e. No. 61*, No. 62*, are casts from portions recently disco¬ 
vered at Athens. A fragment of slab (38) has been presented by 
J. H. Smith Barry , Esq ., 1850. 
No. 47. A single- slab of the frieze from the west end of the tem¬ 
ple. It represents two horsemen, one of whom is riding before the 
other, and seems to be in the act of urging his companion to quicken 
his pace. The direction of these figures is the same as that on the 
north side, namely, from right to left. (39.) 
There is a peculiarity in the frieze of the west end, which distin¬ 
guishes it from that on the north and south sides of the temple. The 
subjects represented on the slabs of those two sides run one into an¬ 
other, that is,, what was left imperfect in one slab is completed in the 
next; wdiereas in the west end the subjects- are nearly complete on each 
piece of marble. The western frieze is likewise distinguished from 
those of the two sides of the temple,, by the comparatively few figures 
introduced into it. 
Nos. 48—61. Fourteen plaster casts, composing the remainder of 
the frieze at the west end of the temple. (A. 75—88.) 
Nos. 62—90. That portion of the same frieze wfrich enriched the 
south side of the temple. It represents a procession of victims, cha¬ 
rioteers, and horsemen, and is very similar, in its general character and 
appearance, to the frieze on the opposite or north side. With respect 
to the victims, none are represented on the part of the frieze from the 
north side of the temple yet remaining to us; but that they formed a 
part of the procession on that side, as w T eil as on the south, cannot be 
doubted, since Stuart, in his celebrated w r ork on Athens, has engraved 
a fragment of one of them. The figure sculptured at the end of No. 
90, (on the right of the entrance,) belongs to the eastern portion of 
the frieze. No. 62 was presented by C. R. Cockerell, Esq., R.A. 
(40*, 41, 41*, 38**, 46, 50, 47, 52, 40, 42, 49, 45, 48, 43, 44, 51, 
38***, 53, 54, 56, 55, 15*, 57, 59, 61, 60, 58, 96, 62.) 
At the south side of the room above the frieze are casts of the metope 
at the left angle of the western facade of the Parthenon, representing 
a horseman, and of the metope of the right angle of the north side, 
representing a female, probably a divinity, seated, on a rock, and 
another standing before her. Between them are casts of the portions 
of the frieze recently discovered. At the north end of the room is a 
cast of the twelfth metope of the south facade of the Parthenon, re¬ 
presenting a centaur bearing off a female, and some additional casts of 
that part of the frieze which exhibits the victors in their cars. 
