temple-relief
- Museum number
- 1816,0610.41
- Title
- Series: The Parthenon Sculptures
- Description
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Marble relief (Block XLII) from the North frieze of the Parthenon. The frieze shows the procession of the Panathenaic festival, the commemoration of the birthday of the goddess Athena.
This block shows three riders. We see two riders identically dressed in short tunic and a short chlamys pinned in one shoulder. The horsemen of the cavalcade on the North frieze are composed of a series of phalanxes overlapping one on another in an unequal division. There is among the riders of the North frieze great variation in composition and in dress. Some are heavily draped in mantle and tunic, while others are all but naked. Some ride bareheaded, while others wear a distinctive form of cap. Metal reins, which are now lost, were inserted in drill-holes. A fragment, a rider’s head, is in the Acropolis Museum, Athens.
For more information on the North frieze see North frieze Block XLVII.
The northern branch of the procession follows a similar pattern to the southern.
- Production date
- 438BC-432BC
- Location
- On display (G18)
- Exhibition history
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2018, 26 Apr-29 Jul,The British Museum, Rodin and the art of ancient Greece.
- Acquisition date
- 1816
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1816,0610.41
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: North Frieze, Block XLII
