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A week later, Mr. Michel said, the robot will hew a copy of a second Parthenon marble: a metope, or sculpted panel, of the Centauromachy, a mythic battle between the civilized Lapiths and bestial Centaurs at the wedding feast of Peirithous and Hippodamia.

An art historian on the faculty of Fairfield University in Connecticut, Schwab invested years in drawing some of the badly damaged metope sculptures that originally graced the outer face of the Parthenon, the iconic building that was constructed on the Acropolis in Athens between 447 and 432 B.C.

In the first half of the 5th century the sacred marriage was represented on an extant metope from a temple at Selinus.

Mutule, mūt′ūl, n. a kind of square, flat bracket used in the Doric order of architecture, above each triglyph and each metope, having round projections like nail-heads on the lower surface.

As the tragic poet fills the stage with the legend, so the sculptor fills the metope with the legend.