Parthenon Frieze _ East III, 7-11

Five girls walk in procession carrying jugs (oinochai) for the pouring of liquid sacrifices. The east frieze is comprised of eight or nine blocks (research has shown that VII and VIII formed a single block) that are considerably longer than the blocks of the other sides. The middle block V is 4.50 m. in length, whereas the corner blocks are narrow because they are in fact the narrow ends of block I of the north frieze and block XLVII of the south frieze. The surviving blocks and fragments are scattered among various museums: in the Acropolis are blocks II and VI, in the British Museum blocks I, III-V, VIII and in the Louvre block VII. In addition a number of fragments are in the British Museum and others are in the Archaeological Museum of Palermo. In contrast to the west frieze, the east frieze has a certain symmetry of composition, since it is the focal point of the processions of the other sides.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.五名少女列队行进，手持注液祭献用陶壶（oinochai）。东山檐壁饰带（frieze）由8至9块饰板组成（研究表明，VII号与VIII号饰板实为一整板），其长度远超其他侧面的檐壁饰板。其中部的V号饰板长4.50米，而转角饰板较为窄小——它们实则为北檐壁饰板（frieze slab）I与南檐壁饰板（frieze slab）XLVII的窄端部分。现存饰板及残片分藏于多家博物馆：雅典卫城博物馆藏II、VI号饰板，大英博物馆（British Museum）藏I、III-V、VIII号饰板，卢浮宫（Louvre）藏VII号饰板。另有多件残片藏于大英博物馆，其余残片则藏于巴勒莫考古博物馆。与西檐壁饰带（frieze）相比，东山檐壁饰带（frieze）的构图具备对称性，因其为其余侧面游行场景的视觉焦点。帕特农神庙檐壁饰带（frieze）为一圈连续的浅浮雕饰带，环绕于外柱廊内部的主殿内殿（cella）上部区域。饰带的主题为大泛雅典娜节（Great Panathenaia，纪念雅典娜女神诞辰的庆典）期间前往雅典卫城（Acropolis）的游行队伍。本饰板编号体系引自I·詹金斯1994年出版的《帕特农神庙檐壁饰带》一书：饰板采用罗马数字标注，人物则采用阿拉伯数字标注。