Elgin Marbles, Parthenon Marbles, sculptures of the Parthenon, ,sculptor Phidias, Acropolis of Athens, 5th century BCE, Athena Greece, British Museum,

Elgin Marbles, Parthenon Marbles, sculptures of the Parthenon, ,sculptor Phidias, Acropolis of Athens, 5th century BCE, Athena Greece, British Museum, Stock Photo

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The Elgin Marbles include some of the statuary from the pediments, the metope panels depicting battles between the Lapiths and the Centaurs, as well as the Parthenon Frieze which decorated the horizontal course set above the interior architrave of the temple. As such, they represent more than half of what now remains of the surviving sculptural decoration of the Parthenon: the Elgin marbles and freize cover about 1km of land laid out flat, 15 out of 92 metopes; 17 partial figures from the pediments, as well as other pieces of architecture. Elgin's acquisitions also included objects from other buildings on the Athenian Acropolis: the Erechtheion, reduced to ruin during the Greek War of Independence 1821–33 the Propylaia, and the Temple of Athena Nike. Lord Elgin took half of the marbles from the Parthenon and wax casts were produced from the remaining ones

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