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Marble part of relief (Block VI) from the East frieze of the Parthenon. The frieze shows the procession of the Panathenaic festival, the commemoration of the birthday of the goddess Athena.This block survives in two fragments. The left part shows four men each leaning on a stick and seemingly engaged in conversation. These are seen either as magistrates or four of the ten eponymous heroes who gave their names to the ten tribes of Athens. They should be taken together with the male figures at the head of the Southern branch of the procession on Block III and IV. They provide a transition between the gods seated on one side and the procession approaching on the other. Lounging on staves, they are pictorially half-way between the seated gods and the fully upright processional figures. These figures were sadly mutilated shortly before Lord Elgin’s men arrived on the Acropolis in 1801. They can be reconstructed with the help of casts from moulds taken by the French diplomat Le Comte d… (See Merlin record for full description)
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