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 THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES. "3 when they were killed by Neoptolemus.* It was the last act of war, and so would appropriately come here. I do not feel sure of the two riders on one horse, as shown by Michaelis, but of the action of the falling horse there seems to be no doubt, it is rendered clearly on Lucas' model at the Museum made before 1845. (Fig. no.) Compare the vase figured by Reinach,t where a Greek, called by him Achilles, encounters two Trojans, one of whom rode a horse which has fallen. I have found a similar group on a vase figured in the Berlin Jahrhuch of Archaeo- logy, ^ which again shows a Greek attacking two Trojans, one of whom is on a falling horse RFrTO<:H Fig. 112. ctorious Athena : from a Vase. whose action is singularly like that on metope 29. The first panel of all on the north side con- tains a chariot apparently driven by a woman. (Fig. 109.) Possibly this may be Athena setting off to witness the fall of Troy. The last metope, No. 32, has a dignified woman's figure sitting on a rock, while a messenger runs up to her. (Fig. in.) Compare this beautiful panel, of which we for- tunately have an old cast in the Museum, with the panel at Olympia of Athena seated on the Acropolis. § I give also a sketch from a vase || in the Museum where she sits apart Fig. 113. — Athena on the Acropolis : from a Vase at the British Museum. t Repertoire, i. 411. % 1905. Plate 7. § CoUignon, i., fig. 223. || Pedestal 13.
 * "Die Iliupersis des Polygnot" (1893), and Fraser's "Pausanias."