The
Parthenon frieze is the high-relief
pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the
Parthenon’s naos. It was sculpted between c. 443 and 438 BC, most likely under the direction of
Pheidias. Of the of the original frieze, survives—some 80 percent. The rest is known only from the drawings attributed to French artist
Jacques Carrey in 1674, thirteen years before the Venetian bombardment that ruined the temple.