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CHAPTER XI.

EXTANT MONUMENTS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY

(continued).

Pedimental Group from the Temple of
Athene in ^Egina.

Of the three great centres of plastic art, of which we have spoken in
the last chapter on the early artists—viz. Argos, Sicyon, and ./Egina—

Fig. 50.

restored temple of athene at teg in a.

only the latter is represented by any considerable extant works. In
1811 a company of English and German architects—Cockcrcll,
Forster, Linkh, and Haller—discovered the principal parts of two
pedimental groups among the ruins of the ancient Temple of Athene