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El′gin mar′bles
(el′gin, -jin),USA pronunciation
- Antiquity, Fine Arta group of Greek sculptures of the 5th century b.c., originally on the Parthenon in Athens, and supposedly sculptured under the direction of Phidias: presently in the British Museum in London.
- after Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), who arranged for their removal from Athens