High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Parthenon frieze is the low relief, pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon’s naos. It was sculpted between ca. 443 and 438 BC, most likely under the direction of Pheidias. Of the 524 feet (160 m) of the original frieze, 420 feet (130 m) survives—some 80 percent. The rest is known only from the drawings made by Flemish artist Jacques Carrey in 1674, thirteen years before the Venetian bombardment that ruined the temple.