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whose left thigh, receives the main weight of his hody,
which leans a little to the right, resting on his left
hand. With him is grouped a female figure, kneeling
on both knees, who leans towards her companion, placing
her right arm affectionately round the back of his neck.
She wears a talaric chiton, over which is a diplo'idion
falling below the girdle, and which has slipped from the
left shoulder, leaving the left breast and side exposed.
Her left arm, now entirely wanting, was broken off a
little below the shoulder at the date of Carrey's drawing.
The male figure has a mantle cast over his lower limbs.
His right arm, which was broken off below the elbow in
the time of Stuart, is now reduced to a stump, which
extends no further than the deltoid. The right leg and
knee and part of the right thigh are also wanting. It
appears from the statements of travellers who visited
Athens as late as 1802 that both these figures then still
retained their heads, which have since disappeared. The
careful drawing of this group made by Pars, and preserved
in the Print Room of the British Museum, shows that the
heads of both figures were turned towards the central
group, the head of the female figure being, moreover,
slightly inclined over the left shoulder. In this drawing
the right arm of the male figure is bent at a right angle,
the upper arm being nearly horizontal; the right knee of
this figure and the left arm of the female figure are
wanting. On the ground between the pair is a convex
mass, which has since been recognised to be part of the
coil of a large serpent. The remainder of this serpent
may be seen at the back of the group, passing under the
left hand of the male figure. In front of this hand the
body of the serpent terminates in a joint with a rectan-
gular sinking, into which a fragment from the Elgin
collection, probably the head or tail, has been fitted.
(Mus. Marbles, vi. pi. 8, fig. 2; Caldesi, No. 32 ; Harrison,
No. 699.)
which leans a little to the right, resting on his left
hand. With him is grouped a female figure, kneeling
on both knees, who leans towards her companion, placing
her right arm affectionately round the back of his neck.
She wears a talaric chiton, over which is a diplo'idion
falling below the girdle, and which has slipped from the
left shoulder, leaving the left breast and side exposed.
Her left arm, now entirely wanting, was broken off a
little below the shoulder at the date of Carrey's drawing.
The male figure has a mantle cast over his lower limbs.
His right arm, which was broken off below the elbow in
the time of Stuart, is now reduced to a stump, which
extends no further than the deltoid. The right leg and
knee and part of the right thigh are also wanting. It
appears from the statements of travellers who visited
Athens as late as 1802 that both these figures then still
retained their heads, which have since disappeared. The
careful drawing of this group made by Pars, and preserved
in the Print Room of the British Museum, shows that the
heads of both figures were turned towards the central
group, the head of the female figure being, moreover,
slightly inclined over the left shoulder. In this drawing
the right arm of the male figure is bent at a right angle,
the upper arm being nearly horizontal; the right knee of
this figure and the left arm of the female figure are
wanting. On the ground between the pair is a convex
mass, which has since been recognised to be part of the
coil of a large serpent. The remainder of this serpent
may be seen at the back of the group, passing under the
left hand of the male figure. In front of this hand the
body of the serpent terminates in a joint with a rectan-
gular sinking, into which a fragment from the Elgin
collection, probably the head or tail, has been fitted.
(Mus. Marbles, vi. pi. 8, fig. 2; Caldesi, No. 32 ; Harrison,
No. 699.)