elgin marbles

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Elgin Marbles
    n 1: a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures and
         fragments of architecture created by Phidias; chiefly from
         the Parthenon in Athens

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Elgin marbles \El"gin mar"bles\
   Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at
   Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.
   [1913 Webster]

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