Elgin Marbles

A Elgin Marbles (/ˈɛlɡɪn/ ELG-in)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Wells https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Pronouncing_Dictionarye 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.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Jenkins

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. https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008272383A merɛ nang be a Elgin's toma zie da taa la eebo.https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/parthenon-marbles-dispute-9781509967179/
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Pedimental sculpture
Palermo Fragment
Greece–United Kingdom relations
Las Incantadas, portico taken from Thessaloniki
Saint Demetra, sculpture taken from Eleusis
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 Acropolis Museum
 The Parthenon Frieze
 The British Museum Parthenon pages

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 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.

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 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
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 Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
 Sculptures of Dionysus

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