Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1940)

702 The birth of Athena in art

At this point prudence would perhaps pause, content with
probabilities, for in what follows the element of conjecture is
necessarily larger. Nevertheless a bow drawn at a venture has
before now hit the mark. So I proceed with as much circumspection
as the facts allow.

Between Hera and the first of the extant figures from the
southern angle is a gap, which—as the floor-traces suggest—-was
once filled by two standing persons. But, since these persons have
entirely disappeared, how are we to identify and restore them i
Our only clue will be the fact noted above1, that Attic vases painted
within a few decades from the completion of the pediment are full
of motives derived from the Parthenon. Now a splendid krater at
Petrograd (fig. 522)2, attributed by J. D. Beazley to his 'Kadrnos

The other two fragments possihly derived from the same figure are a left breast
(height o-i8.5m) with close-fittir.g chit6n {Brit. Mus. Cat. Sculpture i. 202 no. 339' -9'
The Sculptures of the Parthenon p. 24 frag. 87 pi. 14 b) and the front part (width o'35")
of a sandalled right foot (The Sculptures of the Parthenon p. i^frag. 40 pi. 14 a).

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So far as I can judge, these three fragments fall well into place on my drawing, which
was I may say—completed before I began my search for confirmatory remnants. On
the other hand, Six loc. cit. p. 66 claims that the veiled head was found by Ross before
the western front of the Parthenon. If that be so, it of course tells against the assigm»ent
of frag. 15 to my seated Hera. But the statements of Ross himself are not quite s0
explicit and leave some room for doubt (L. Ross Archaologische Aufscitze Leipzig 1S55 >•
89 f. 'Die Ausgrabung ist jetzt {sc. 1835) schon bis an die Mitte der Westseite [des
Unterbaus] des Tempels fortgefllhrt. ...Die Menge der gefundenen Bruchstiicke von
Bildhauerarbeit und Inschriften ist gross....Unter den Ubrigen Bruchstiicken sind nocb
viele sehr schbne, namentlich ein Paar Fragmente von Kopfen, die aber wohl nicht
(A. Michaelis Der Parthenon Leipzig 1871 p. 196 on nos. 8 and 9 asks: 'vvarum nicht? )
zu den Figuren des Giebelftldes gehoren mochten; von einer der Metopen der SUdseite
ist ein sehr schon erhaltener Centaurenkopf ausgegraben worden,' etc.). Such a dump °'
fragments as he reports, some sculptured, others inscribed, may well have yielded a stray
piece from any part of the building. Smith in the British Museum publications simp'v
ignores the alleged find-spot.

1 Supra p. 692. . the

2 Supra ii. 262 n. 4, iii. 184 n. 1 (1). The obverse of this vase is published in
Compte-renduSt.Pit. 1861 Atlas pi. 3 ( = myfig. 522); the reverse, ii. pi. 4 (= my ii P1-*''"''