Mentor (brig)
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The Mentor was a brig bought by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, in order to transport antiquities from Athens.[1] The cargo included a significant number of sculptures from the Parthenon.[2][3][4]
Commanded by Captain William Eglen, it left Piraeus on 18 September 1802 with seventeen cases full of antiquities, including:[1][3][5]
- 14 pieces of the Parthenon Frieze
- 4 pieces of the frieze of the temple known as Athena Nike on the Acropolis
- a marble throne
