A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume 1 (of 2)

by A. H. Smith

354, 5. Casts from two fragments of acroteria, probably from the western pediment.

The acroteria were ornaments placed above the centre of the pediments. For an example of a complete acroterion, see that from Eleusis, No. 438.

Lengths, 3 feet 3 inches and 1 foot 9 inches; Michaelis, pl. 2, fig. 10, i, l.

356. Marble fragment of a similar acroterion.—Inwood Coll.

Height, 10 inches; Inwood, Erechtheion, pl. 22, p. 130.

357. Marble fragment of moulding with painted mæander pattern.—Inwood Coll.

Length, 10 inches; Inwood, Erechtheion, pl. 22, p. 129.

358. Marble fragment of moulding with painted mæander pattern. Both these fragments (357, 358) appear to belong to the moulding which surmounted the frieze and passed round the interior of the peristyle.—Elgin Coll.

Length, 1 foot 9 inches; Penrose, Athenian Architecture, pl. 20, fig. 27a; pl. 23; Michaelis, pl. 2, fig. 17.