Hermes holding scales while weighing the souls (psychostasia) of Achilles and Memnon.

Then the frieze depicts a scene from the Iliad: Memnon and Achilles fighting over the dead body of the warrior Antilochus, where the two adversaries are flanked by the heroes of the Achaeans on the right and those of the Trojans respectively on the left. At the far left is the figure of old Nestor, encouraging the Greeks.

The north frieze

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