Footnote 1 – What Are the Elgin Marbles?

J. Connelly has suggested that the frieze depicts the Sacrifice of the Daughters of Erechtheus, not the Panathenaic Procession. (See “The Parthenon Frieze and the Sacrifice of the Erechteids: Reinterpreting the Peplos Scene,” Abstracts Architectural Institute of America, vol. 16 [1992], p. 25.) But the theory is in dispute.