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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of the River Ilissos British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon British Museum |
The arrangement of fragments from the west pediment of the Parthenon demonstrates the degree to which this group was reduced almost to rubble by successive waves of malicious humans – before its removal to London two centuries ago. The display at the British Museum attempts to reproduce the original disposition from the 430s BC within the broad triangular space of the pediment. Yet it might indeed seem like a dubious privilege, this freedom to contemplate the scale of what has been lost by comparison with the poverty of what remains. We are confidently assured that these figures once represented "the contest between Athena and Poseidon for supremacy over the land of Attica "
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Hermes British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Hermes British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Athena British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Athena British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Poseidon British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Poseidon British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Poseidon British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Iris British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Iris British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Amphitrite British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Amphitrite British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Oreithyia British Museum |
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| Marble sculpture from the west pediment of the Parthenon Figure of Oreithyia British Museum |