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EAST PEDIMENT OF PARTHENON.
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mouth. The head of the other horse on this block (C),
which was advanced bej'ond the outside head, so as to be
visible, is nearly destroyed; only the neck and back of
the head remain.
Mus. Marbles, XL, pi. 2 ; JVIiehaelis, pi. 6, fio;. 9 ; Stereoscopic, No. 105.
For the two heads still on the pediment, see Athenischc Mit-
thcilungcn, XVI., p. 81.
303 D. This figure, which is commonly known as Theseus,
reclines on a rock and faces the horses of Helios. He
leans on his left arm in an easy attitude. The right
arm is bent, but, as the hand is wanting, we can only form
conjectures as to what its action may have been. It
probably held a spear, or some other long object, the
end of which may have been attached to the left ankle
at the place where a dowel hole is still visible. According
to some writers, the hole served for the attachment of the
laced work of a sandal in bronze. (Ber. d. h. sacks. Gcs.
d. Wissenschaften, 1880, p. 44.) The legs are bent, the
left leg drawn back under the right. The headdress is
in the form of the krobylos (cf. No. 209). The body is
entirely nude : over the rock on which the figure rests is
thrown a mantle under which is strewn a skin, the claws
of which are certainly those of some feline animal. The
type and position of this figure present so much resem-
blance to the Heracles on the silver coins of Croton in
Lower Italy {Mus. Marbles, vi., title-page), that it has
been identified with that hero by Visconti, who supposed
the skin on which he reclines to be that of a lion. This
skin, however, seems more like that of a panther, on which
ground the figure has been thought to be Hionysos, who
appears in a very similar reclining attitude on another
Athenian work, the Choragic monument of Lysicrates
(No. 430, T) ; compare the statue in the Louvre, Miiller-
Wieseler, Denkmacler, ii., pi. 32, No. 3G0. Compare also
the figure of Dionysos reclining, on a relief on an aslcos in
107
mouth. The head of the other horse on this block (C),
which was advanced bej'ond the outside head, so as to be
visible, is nearly destroyed; only the neck and back of
the head remain.
Mus. Marbles, XL, pi. 2 ; JVIiehaelis, pi. 6, fio;. 9 ; Stereoscopic, No. 105.
For the two heads still on the pediment, see Athenischc Mit-
thcilungcn, XVI., p. 81.
303 D. This figure, which is commonly known as Theseus,
reclines on a rock and faces the horses of Helios. He
leans on his left arm in an easy attitude. The right
arm is bent, but, as the hand is wanting, we can only form
conjectures as to what its action may have been. It
probably held a spear, or some other long object, the
end of which may have been attached to the left ankle
at the place where a dowel hole is still visible. According
to some writers, the hole served for the attachment of the
laced work of a sandal in bronze. (Ber. d. h. sacks. Gcs.
d. Wissenschaften, 1880, p. 44.) The legs are bent, the
left leg drawn back under the right. The headdress is
in the form of the krobylos (cf. No. 209). The body is
entirely nude : over the rock on which the figure rests is
thrown a mantle under which is strewn a skin, the claws
of which are certainly those of some feline animal. The
type and position of this figure present so much resem-
blance to the Heracles on the silver coins of Croton in
Lower Italy {Mus. Marbles, vi., title-page), that it has
been identified with that hero by Visconti, who supposed
the skin on which he reclines to be that of a lion. This
skin, however, seems more like that of a panther, on which
ground the figure has been thought to be Hionysos, who
appears in a very similar reclining attitude on another
Athenian work, the Choragic monument of Lysicrates
(No. 430, T) ; compare the statue in the Louvre, Miiller-
Wieseler, Denkmacler, ii., pi. 32, No. 3G0. Compare also
the figure of Dionysos reclining, on a relief on an aslcos in