112 THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES. Story, was thus restrained from killing his wife. This interpreta- tion Dr Murray would not accept (" Parthenon Sculptures," 1903). He proposed a battle of Centaurs for this side too, remarking that " there were too many women about for the Troy war." But the subject suggested was not a Troy battle, but incidents after taking the city. On a vase in the Museum * we have Menelaus and Helen again, Ajax and Cassandra, and other similar groups. Fig. III. — N. Metopes, No. 32 : Slightly restored ; from Drawing in Elgin Collection. The figure from the vase which Michaelis gave seems to me entirely convincing. With this clue it is easy to suggest that 29 must be a fugitive from Troy, and Dr Robert, comparing it with the descrip- tion of the painting by Polygnotos of the fall of Tro)-, reads it as representing two Trojans who were escaping on one horse
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