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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

171. Female figure (on the left).

Restored :—Head, right hand and part of sleeve ; left forearm with
part of sleeve and drapery. Cockerell, pi. 1.

172. Female figure (on the right).

Restored :—Head; lower edge of right sleeve ; right hand and fore-
arm ; parts of drapery. Cockerell, pi. 1.

173. At each angle are casts of lions' heads, which in the
absence of casts from the originals have been taken from
the cornice of the archaic temple at Ephesus. The lion's
head engraved by Cockerell (pi. 13, fig. 4), appears to be
his restoration.

174. The angles are surmounted by Gryphons, which have
been cast from a single original. The original has been
considerably restored, especially the head.

Cockerell, pi. 13, fig. 4. The hind parts of one Gryphon were dis-
covered by Chandler in 1765, but they were immediately broken
and stolen. Chandler, Travels in Greece, p. 12.

The East Pediment of the Temple at Aegina.

Of the east pediment only five figures were found,
sufficiently complete to be restored. The fragments leave
no doubt that the composition was as a whole analogous
to that of the west pediment, and that the subject was a
battlo for the body of a fallen warrior, fought in the
presence of Athene.

The clue to the subject represented is given by the
figure of Heracles, and archaeologists are almost unani-
mous in thinking that the scene is a battle in the
war which Telamon of Aegina, aided by Heracles, waged
against Laomedon, King of Troy (cf. Apollodorus, ii.,
6, 3, 4).

The arrangement is nearly that of Cockerell. The
Heracles, however, has been placed on the right side of
the pediment, because the left side of the statue is the