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M. Charles Lenormant and other French archaeologists
have thought that this head corresponded in style to the
sculptures of the Parthenon, and supposed it to have
belonged to the figure standing by the car of Amphitrite
in the West Pediment (N. in the table of Michaelis),
which in Carrey's drawing still retains its head. But
this attribution has not been accepted by more recent
authorities, who fail to recognise in this head any corres-
pondence of style or type with the other extant heads from
the Parthenon. The original is of Pentelic marble. Tho
hair is gathered up into a knot on the top of the head;
the nose is restored; the pupils of the eyes are marked
by incised lines.
Fr. Lenormant, Gazette Archeologique, 1875, p. 1, pi. 1 ; Laborde,
Athenes, I., p. 157 ; ilichaelis, Parthenon, p. 202, B*.
(G. 5.) Lower part of a seated and draped female figure,
the original of which, in white marble, is in the Museum of
St. Mark at Venice. The style of sculpture is Athenian
and presents some resemblance to that of the pedimental
figures of the Parthenon, though decidedly inferior both
in composition and execution. The scale, again, is rather
smaller than any of the extant figures. Hence the pro-
posed attribution of this fragment to the Western Pediment
cannot be established.
Height, 2 feet 10 inches. Archaol. Zeitung, 1880, p. 71, pi. 7.
(Gr. 6.) Male torso, of which the only part preserved is
the front of the body from below the breast nearly
to the pelvis and the ribs on the left side. So much of
this torso has been destroyed that the original action
cannot be made out; the body appears to have been turned
to the right. Below the ribs on the left side is a joint
where another piece of marble has been fitted on. The
original marble was found on the Akrojoolis at Athens, but
M. Charles Lenormant and other French archaeologists
have thought that this head corresponded in style to the
sculptures of the Parthenon, and supposed it to have
belonged to the figure standing by the car of Amphitrite
in the West Pediment (N. in the table of Michaelis),
which in Carrey's drawing still retains its head. But
this attribution has not been accepted by more recent
authorities, who fail to recognise in this head any corres-
pondence of style or type with the other extant heads from
the Parthenon. The original is of Pentelic marble. Tho
hair is gathered up into a knot on the top of the head;
the nose is restored; the pupils of the eyes are marked
by incised lines.
Fr. Lenormant, Gazette Archeologique, 1875, p. 1, pi. 1 ; Laborde,
Athenes, I., p. 157 ; ilichaelis, Parthenon, p. 202, B*.
(G. 5.) Lower part of a seated and draped female figure,
the original of which, in white marble, is in the Museum of
St. Mark at Venice. The style of sculpture is Athenian
and presents some resemblance to that of the pedimental
figures of the Parthenon, though decidedly inferior both
in composition and execution. The scale, again, is rather
smaller than any of the extant figures. Hence the pro-
posed attribution of this fragment to the Western Pediment
cannot be established.
Height, 2 feet 10 inches. Archaol. Zeitung, 1880, p. 71, pi. 7.
(Gr. 6.) Male torso, of which the only part preserved is
the front of the body from below the breast nearly
to the pelvis and the ribs on the left side. So much of
this torso has been destroyed that the original action
cannot be made out; the body appears to have been turned
to the right. Below the ribs on the left side is a joint
where another piece of marble has been fitted on. The
original marble was found on the Akrojoolis at Athens, but