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This group has received various names. The association
of the serpent with the male figure has led Michaelis
(p. 193, No. 2) to recognise in him Asklepios, in which
case the female figure would naturally he Hygieia, who
is constantly associated in Greek art with the father
of the healing art, and who was worshipped, conjointly
with Asklepios, in the recently discovered temple at the
southern foot of the Athenian Akropolis. The "bearded
head, too, of the male figure, as drawn by Pars, would
well accord with the type of Asklepios. On the other
hand, the serpent in connection with that deity is usually
coiled round his staff, not winding along the ground,
as on the pediment. The whole composition of this
serpent in relation to the kneeling male figure rather
suggests the type of the earth-born Kekrops, as has been
maintained by Petersen and others. If we adopt this
attribution, then the female figure so affectionately
associated with the bearded figure in this group would be
one of the daughters of Kekrops, and the two female
figures (D, F), who in Carrey's drawing follow next,
woiild be his other two daughters. The boy (E) be-
tween them would be, not the infant Iakchos between
Demeterand Kore, as Michaelis (p. 186) supposes, but the
young Erysichthon, son of Kekrops.
Of the three figures D, E, F, only one fragment, now
at Athens, has been identified, representing the left knee
of a seated figure, with the right hand of a boy resting on
it, and thus corresponding with Carrey's drawing of the
seated figure on whose knee the boy Erysichthon rests his
right hand. A cast of this fragment is exhibited in Wall-
Case S.
In Dalton's drawing a draped female torso, broken off at
the knees, is placed next to C, which Michaelis (p. 191,
No. 1) conjectures to be the remains of F. Dalton has
represented this figure with the chiton slipped down from
the right shoulder so as to show the right breast and side.
This group has received various names. The association
of the serpent with the male figure has led Michaelis
(p. 193, No. 2) to recognise in him Asklepios, in which
case the female figure would naturally he Hygieia, who
is constantly associated in Greek art with the father
of the healing art, and who was worshipped, conjointly
with Asklepios, in the recently discovered temple at the
southern foot of the Athenian Akropolis. The "bearded
head, too, of the male figure, as drawn by Pars, would
well accord with the type of Asklepios. On the other
hand, the serpent in connection with that deity is usually
coiled round his staff, not winding along the ground,
as on the pediment. The whole composition of this
serpent in relation to the kneeling male figure rather
suggests the type of the earth-born Kekrops, as has been
maintained by Petersen and others. If we adopt this
attribution, then the female figure so affectionately
associated with the bearded figure in this group would be
one of the daughters of Kekrops, and the two female
figures (D, F), who in Carrey's drawing follow next,
woiild be his other two daughters. The boy (E) be-
tween them would be, not the infant Iakchos between
Demeterand Kore, as Michaelis (p. 186) supposes, but the
young Erysichthon, son of Kekrops.
Of the three figures D, E, F, only one fragment, now
at Athens, has been identified, representing the left knee
of a seated figure, with the right hand of a boy resting on
it, and thus corresponding with Carrey's drawing of the
seated figure on whose knee the boy Erysichthon rests his
right hand. A cast of this fragment is exhibited in Wall-
Case S.
In Dalton's drawing a draped female torso, broken off at
the knees, is placed next to C, which Michaelis (p. 191,
No. 1) conjectures to be the remains of F. Dalton has
represented this figure with the chiton slipped down from
the right shoulder so as to show the right breast and side.