Editing Elgin Marbles (section)

==Description==
[[File:Parthenon_section_annotated.svg|thumb|Annotated sectional view of the Parthenon with parts in the British Museum shaded]]
{{Main|Parthenon Frieze|Metopes of the Parthenon|Pediments of the Parthenon}}

The marbles acquired by Elgin include some 21 figures from the statuary from the east and west [[pediment]]s, 15 of an original 92 [[Metope (architecture)|metope]] panels depicting battles between the [[Lapiths]] and the [[centaur]]s, as well as 75 metres of the [[Parthenon Frieze|Parthenon frieze]] which decorated the horizontal course set above the interior architrave of the temple. As such, they represent more than half of what now remains of the surviving sculptural decoration of the Parthenon.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=9 January 2023 |title=The Parthenon Sculptures |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/contested-objects-collection/parthenon-sculptures |access-date=9 January 2023 |website=The British Museum}}</ref>

Elgin's acquisitions also included objects from other buildings on the Athenian Acropolis – a [[caryatid]] from the Erechtheion; four slabs from the parapet frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike; and a number of other architectural fragments of the Parthenon, Propylaia, Erechtheion, and the Temple of Athena Nike – as well as the [[Treasury of Atreus]] in [[Mycenae]].<ref name=":1" />

The British Museum also holds additional fragments from the Acropolis, acquired from various collections without connection to Elgin, such as those of [[Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois]],<ref>{{cite web | date=24 September 2024 | title=British Museum Catalogue entry for item 1840.1111.5 |  url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1840-1111-5 | website= The British Museum}}</ref> [[William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire]],<ref>{{cite web | date=24 September 2024 |title=British Museum Catalogue entry for item 1854.0513.1 |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1854-0513-1| website= The British Museum}}</ref> and the [[Society of Dilettanti]].<ref>{{cite web | date=24 September 2024 |title=British Museum Catalogue entry for item 1816.0610.29-30a | url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1816-0610-29-30-a | website= The British Museum}}</ref>