The east frieze is comprised of eight or nine blocks (research has shown that VII and VIII formed a single block) that are considerably longer than the blocks of the other sides. The middle block V is 4.50 m. in length, whereas the corner blocks are narrow because they are in fact the narrow ends of block I of the north frieze and block XLVII of the south frieze. The surviving blocks and fragments are scattered among various museums: in the Acropolis are blocks II and VI, in the British Museum blocks I, III-V, VIII and in the Louvre block VII. In addition a number of fragments are in the British Museum and others are in the Archaeological Museum of Palermo. In contrast to the west frieze, the east frieze has a certain symmetry of composition, since it is the focal point of the processions of the other sides.