Parthenon Frieze _ North XLVII, 132-136

Marble relief (Block XLVII) from the North frieze of the Parthenon. The frieze shows the procession of the Panathenaic festival, the commemoration of the birthday of the goddess Athena. Like the southern branch of the procession, the northern branch comprises mounted horsemen, chariots, elders, musicians, pitcher-bearers, tray-bearers and figures leading sacrificial victims. Half of the North frieze is in the British Museum and the other half in the Acropolis museum. The total length of the north frieze was 58.70 m. The scenes begin at the northwest corner of the opisthonaos as a continuation of the procession which has already started on the west side, thus running from block N XLVII to block N I. The action develops gradually and from quiet preparation accelerates to a gallop. Ignoring the divisions of the blocks, the horsemen are depicted proceeding in groups of seven or eight, the horses partly overlapping each other. The continuous flow of horses and riders is interrupted only by the marshal (90) on block XXXIV. Yet with variety of garment, of stance and gesture of the most beautiful of the horsemen and with the occasional depiction of a man turning his head to look back, monotony is avoided. The frieze of the Parthenon forms a continuous band with scenes in low relief that encircles the upper part of the cella, the main temple, within the outer colonnade. The theme represented was the procession toward the Acropolis that took place during the Great Panathenaia, the commemoration of the birthday of the goddess Athena.Numbering taken from I. Jenkins, The Parthenon Frieze, 1994. Frieze slabs are marked in Roman numerals, People are marked in arabic numerals.帕特农神庙北饰带的大理石浮雕（第XLVII号残块）。该饰带展现泛雅典娜节的游行场景——这一庆典是为纪念雅典娜女神的诞辰而设立。与游行队伍的南段一致，北段同样包含骑马者、战车、长者、乐师、持水罐者、持托盘者，以及引领祭祀牺牲的人物。北饰带的一半馆藏于大英博物馆，另一半则藏于雅典卫城博物馆。北饰带的总长度为58.70米。游行场景始于后内殿的西北角，作为西侧已开启的游行的延续，由此从第N XLVII号残块延伸至第N I号残块。叙事进程循序渐进，从静谧的筹备环节逐步加速至疾驰的场面。创作者并未拘泥于残块的分界，将骑马者以七至八人为一组进行刻画，马匹彼此部分重叠。连绵不绝的车马队列仅在第XXXIV号残块上编号为90的司仪处中断。尽管如此，通过丰富多样的服饰、姿态与手势，再辅以部分骑士回头张望的细节刻画，作品成功避免了单调感。 帕特农神庙的饰带构成一条连续的浅浮雕带，环绕外柱廊内部主殿——内殿的上部。其所表现的主题是大泛雅典娜节期间朝向雅典卫城的游行庆典，该节日用以纪念雅典娜女神的诞辰。本次编号采用I. 詹金斯1994年所著《帕特农神庙饰带》中的规则：饰板以罗马数字标注，人物以阿拉伯数字标注。