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The head of Selene's horse among the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum
Parthenon East Pediment, Athens, 5th Century BCE.
The BM card says: "This is the head of a horse from the chariot of the moon-goddess Selene. She balanced the group of Helios in the other corner of the pediment. The horse is weary from its night-long labour; the eye bulges, the nostrils flare and the mouth gapes."
The gape of the mouth is accentuated by the loss of some of the marble from the lower lip area, broken along a fault which can be seen continuing above the gap.
The photograph was taken by natural light with a Canon Ixus 60 in January 2009.
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