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the same direction. Her left arm is broken off below
the shoulder, which is lower than the right shoulder; she
wears a talaric chiton, over which is a diploidion reaching to
the hips, and falling in a fold over the girdle; the aegis,
folded like a narrow band, passes obliquely across the
bosom between the breasts, and has extended from the
right shoulder to below the left arm-pit. It is scalloped on
its lower edge, and at the point of intersection of each
curve a hole is pierced for the attachment of a serpent of
metal. In the centre of the aegis is another hole, in which
a Gorgoneion may have been fixed. Carrey's drawing
shows the base of the neck, which was broken off when
the torso L was removed by Lord Elgin. It has since
been recognised among the fragments on the Akropolis,
and a cast of it is now adjusted to the marble in the
Museum (Mus. Marbles, vi. pi. 16; Caldesi, No. 18). It is
evident from this that the head of the Goddess was turned
towards her antagonist.
The torso of the Poseidon (M) is made up of two parts,
the shoulders and upper part of the chest removed by Lord
Elgin, and a fragment containing the remainder of the
breast and the abdomen nearly to the navel, which has
been since discovered, and of which the original is at
Athens. Though these two fragments correspond in their
main lines, the fractured surfaces cannot be perfectly
adjusted one to the other, because a portion of the marble
is wanting. Since this torso was engraved in the work of
Michaelis (pi. 8, fig. 16), a small piece of the lower part of
the abdomen has been added to the fragment now at
Athens. It appears from Carrey's drawing that Poseidon
was moving back in a direction contrary to that of Athene,
with the weight of his body thrown on the left knee,
which is bent. A left foot (Michaelis, pi. 8, fig. 31), now
at Athens, may also belong to this figure. Carrey's
drawing shows a small portion of the right upper arm,
the shoulder, which is lower than the right shoulder; she
wears a talaric chiton, over which is a diploidion reaching to
the hips, and falling in a fold over the girdle; the aegis,
folded like a narrow band, passes obliquely across the
bosom between the breasts, and has extended from the
right shoulder to below the left arm-pit. It is scalloped on
its lower edge, and at the point of intersection of each
curve a hole is pierced for the attachment of a serpent of
metal. In the centre of the aegis is another hole, in which
a Gorgoneion may have been fixed. Carrey's drawing
shows the base of the neck, which was broken off when
the torso L was removed by Lord Elgin. It has since
been recognised among the fragments on the Akropolis,
and a cast of it is now adjusted to the marble in the
Museum (Mus. Marbles, vi. pi. 16; Caldesi, No. 18). It is
evident from this that the head of the Goddess was turned
towards her antagonist.
The torso of the Poseidon (M) is made up of two parts,
the shoulders and upper part of the chest removed by Lord
Elgin, and a fragment containing the remainder of the
breast and the abdomen nearly to the navel, which has
been since discovered, and of which the original is at
Athens. Though these two fragments correspond in their
main lines, the fractured surfaces cannot be perfectly
adjusted one to the other, because a portion of the marble
is wanting. Since this torso was engraved in the work of
Michaelis (pi. 8, fig. 16), a small piece of the lower part of
the abdomen has been added to the fragment now at
Athens. It appears from Carrey's drawing that Poseidon
was moving back in a direction contrary to that of Athene,
with the weight of his body thrown on the left knee,
which is bent. A left foot (Michaelis, pi. 8, fig. 31), now
at Athens, may also belong to this figure. Carrey's
drawing shows a small portion of the right upper arm,