Elgin, EHL gihn, Marbles are a group of ancient Greek sculptures that originally decorated the Acropolis in Athens. They are named for Lord Elgin, a British ambassador to Constantinople, who collected them between 1802 and 1804. Most of the sculptures were part of the Parthenon. They include 56 slabs from the frieze, a band of horizontal relief sculpture around the top of the temple. The collection also includes statues that once stood in the pediments (triangular segments of the roof) and 15 slabs from the metopes (square panels in the frieze above the columns). The collection also contains a caryatid (column in the form of a statue of a woman) from the Erechtheum, another temple on the Acropolis.