196 Greek Sculpture. art ; they represent the procession at the Panathenaic festival which was held at Athens in honour of Athena every fifth year; and more especially that portion of it which consisted in the presentation of a veil, or peplos, to the goddess, and the sacrifice of animals at her shrine. The frieze occupies the four sides of the entablature of the outer walls of the cella, and is viewed from below by the light which comes between the fifty columns which Fig. 81. — Bas-relief from the Parthenon Frieze. form the peristyle or outer colonnade. On the eastern frieze is represented the delivery of the peplos in the presence of twelve deities (Fig. 80). Towards this point two processions converge. Both start from the western end — one goes along the northern side, the other along the southern, and they meet at the eastern end over the entrance. The procession includes chariots, horses and
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