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ROOM XV. 
Antiquities. 
presents that were offered. These females appear to 
have headed the procession, and to have been followed 
by the victims, charioteers, horsemen, &c. both on the 
north and south sides of the temple, which together 
formed a procession up to the same point in two sepa¬ 
rate columns. Nos. 20 and 23 are casts in plaster, 
presented by F. Chantrey, Esq. The original of the 
latter is in the Royal Museum at Paris. The upper 
parts of two of the figures in No. 21, the legs and right 
arm of the youthful figure in No. 22, and the two 
figures placed under the latter number are also of plas¬ 
ter, from moulds made before the destruction of these 
figures, which took place before the marbles came into 
the possession of Lord Elgin. (16, 17, 18, 18*, 19, 
20, A 100, 21.) 
No. 25—46. A portion of the same frieze, taken from 
the north side of the temple. No. 25 is a fragment of 
a much larger slab; it represents two of the Meiceci , 
or strangers, who settled at Athens, and were allowed 
to take part in the procession. They carry on their 
shoulders a kind of tray filled with cakes and other 
articles. The remainder of this part of the frieze re¬ 
presents 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 southwest 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 
Celia. 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.) 
No.47. A single slab of the frieze from the west end of 
the temple. It represents two horsemen, one of whom 
is riding before the other, and seems to be in the act 
of 
