Parthenon Frieze _ South XXI, 53-54-55 by Scan The World

Beschreibung

The block survives as the representation of two horsemen and part of a third on the right. The best preserved horseman wears a broad-brimmed all-weather hat. Reins were attached separately to drill-holes and are drawn back as the cavalcade comes to a halt. A fragment of a horse’s head and a fragment of the head of a rider are in the Acropolis Museum, Athens. The south side of the frieze is preserved fragmentarily and the sculptured surface was badly damaged in the tremendous catastrophe suffered by the Parthenon in the explosion of 1687 . This is why the sequence from block XX on is uncertain. Even so, the Carrey drawings show the representations on many of the missing sections and have enabled us to locate a number of existing fragments. The original length of the frieze along the south side was 58.70 m. It was composed of forty-seven blocks, some of which are exhibited in the Acropolis Museum, others in the British Museum. The average width of each block is 1.22 m. The workmanship as a whole is clearly less skillful than that of the north frieze, although some of the scenes may be numbered among the masterpieces of the Parthenon (blocks III, X, XI, XXVI, XXXI and XLIV).The procession begins at the west corner and proceeds toward the right. The variety of pose, garment and movement of figures and animals seen in the north frieze is missing here. The riders move in a straight line, looking straight ahead, with a single exception on block V, rider (13). The varied rendition…