Elgin Marbles

Elgin Marbles

art collection, group of sculptures

Part of	British Museum
Piiluu	440s BCE
Native label	Elgin Marbles
Culture	Ancient Greece
Bezie	British Museum
Coordinate location	51°31′9″N 0°7′42″W
Owned by	British Museum
Creator	Phidias
Made from material	Pentelic marble
Collection	British Museum
Location of discovery	Akropolis
Fabrication method	relief sculpture
Official website	https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/greece-parthenon
Ground level 360 degree view URL	https://goo.gl/maps/DgVRwNyvqejsSV6p6

A Elgin Marbles (/ˈɛlɡɪn/ ELG-in) e la landeɛbo ko Ancient Greek sculptures yi a Parthenon ane yeloore mine nang be Acropolis ko a Athens, nang da taa yiibu yi a Ottoman Greece nang be a piiluu saŋa a 19th century a da taa tagebo yi a Britain yineng a Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl ko Elgin, pampana nang taa eebo yi a British Museum nang be London. A yagrong zie ko a sculptures da taa eebo yi a 5th century BC yineng wuluu nang be a sculptor ane architect Phidias.

A yelnyɔgeraa Parthenon Marbles bee Parthenon Sculptures (Greek: Γλυπτά του Παρθενώνα) e la sculptures—a frieze, metopes ane pediments—yineng a Parthenon nang da taa landeɛbo yineng, nimizeelong nang e British Museum ane a Acropolis Museum na be Athens.

Yi 1801 te ta 1812, Elgin's noba da iree nang da pare nambare mine kyaare a Parthenon sculptures, neng a lɛ zaa a sculptures yineng a Erechtheion, a Temple nang be Athena Nike ane a Propylaia, da mang de ba la gaaneng Britain neng nimizeelong ka ba da maale private museum. Elgin yelee ka ona da iree a sculptures neng sɔroo yineng a Ottoman tontonneba nang be a Athens a wagere nang poɔ. A merɛ nang be a Elgin's toma zie da taa la eebo.

Meng kaa kyɛ

• Pedimental sculpture
• Palermo Fragment
• Greece–United Kingdom relations
• Las Incantadas, portico taken from Thessaloniki
• Saint Demetra, sculpture taken from Eleusis

Ziyiri mine

• Beard, Mary (2010). The Parthenon (2nd ed.). Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-84668-349-7.
• Herman, Alexander (2023). The Parthenon Marbles Dispute. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1509967179.
• Jenkins, Tiffany (2016). Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums[[:Tɛmpileti:Nbsp]]... and Why They Should Stay There. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-965759-9. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
• St Clair, William (1998). Lord Elgin and the Marbles (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-288053-5.
• Titi, Catharine (2023). The Parthenon Marbles and International Law. Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-26356-9.
• Williams, Dyfri (7 January 2009). "Lord Elgin's firman". Journal of the History of Collections. 21 (1): 49–76. doi:10.1093/jhc/fhn033.

Nimitɔɔre kanno

• Fehlmann, Marc (June 2007). "Casts and Connoisseurs: the early reception of the Elgin Marbles". Apollo. pp. 44–51. Archived from the original on 6 May 2012.
• Greenfield, Jeanette (2007). The Return of Cultural Treasures (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-80216-1.
• Hitchens, Christopher (1987). Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-8090-4189-3. (with essays by Robert Browning and Graham Binns)
• Jenkins, Ian (1994). The Parthenon Frieze. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0-7141-2200-7.
• King, Dorothy (2006). The Elgin Marbles. London: Hutchinson Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-09-180013-0.
• Queyrel, François (2008). Le Parthénon, Un monument dans l'Histoire. Paris: Éditions Bartillat. ISBN 978-2-84100-435-5. Archived from the original on 29 September 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
• Stallings, A. E. (2025). Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books. ISBN 9781589882003.

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Library resources about

Elgin Marbles

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• Online books
• Resources in your library
• Resources in other libraries

• Acropolis Museum
• The Parthenon Frieze
• The British Museum Parthenon pages

Pros ane cons ko restitution

• British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles' site
• The Parthenon Project
• "The Case for Lord Elgin," Classics for All
• Gillen Wood, "The strange case of Lord Elgin's nose": the cultural context of the early 19th century debate over the marbles, the politics and the aesthetics, imperialism and hellenism
• Two memorandums submitted to the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport in 2000.
• "Keeping our share", Aôthen Magazine: Argues for the dismissal of the Greek claim, and for retaining the Marbles as part of cultural history.

v t e Phidias

v t e British Museum

v t e Acropolis of Athens

v t e Sculpture

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Categories:

• Elgin Marbles
• 5th-century BC Greek sculptures
• Parthenon
• Art and cultural repatriation
• Greece–United Kingdom relations
• Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the British Museum
• History of museums
• History of Athens
• Marble sculptures in the United Kingdom
• Sculptures by Phidias
• Greek artifacts outside Greece
• 19th century in Athens
• Horses in art
• Architectural sculpture
• Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
• Sculptures of Dionysus