A guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum (1899)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Smith, A. H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1860-1941 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 39
Museum are taken from thecontest between the Centaurs and Lapiths at the marriage-feast,of Peirithoos. The sculpture is in the highest rehef attainable in marble,large portions of some of the figures being carved in the round;so as to stand out quite free of the background. There is a.remarkable… … Fig. 8.—Metopes 308, 309, from Can-ey. 305. The Lapith throttles the Centaur. 307. The heads of both the ligures are cast from originals atCopenhagen, whither they appear to have been sent by an officerserving at the siege of the Acropolis in 1687. 308^ 309. The action of these metopes is explained…
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