Institution : Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA)
Service provider : National Documentation Centre (EKT)
The Parthenon Frieze repository collection showcases 119 items, each a digital representation of a frieze block. The Parthenon Frieze is the low-relief marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon, the temple dedicated to the goddess Athena. It was sculpted between c. 443 and 437 BC under the direction of Pheidias. The Parthenon Frieze is the defining monument of the High Classical style of Attic sculpture.
The frieze of the Parthenon forms a continuous band with scenes in 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 festival in honour of the goddess Athena.
Of the entire frieze preserved today, 50 metres are in the Acropolis Museum, 80 metres in the British Museum, one block in the Louvre and several fragments are scattered in different European museums.
Year range: 442 π.Χ. - 438 π.Χ.
