DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18216#0136
122
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
Wheler took it to represent Hadrian and Sabina, and
their opinion was repeated by Payne Knight. The group
has also been called Heracles and Hebe; Hephaestos
and Aphrodite. The association of the serpent with the
male figure has led Michaelis (p. 193) to recognise in
him Asclepios, in which case the female figure would
naturally bo Hygieia, who is constantly associated
with the father of the healing art, and who was wor-
shipped, conjointly with Asclepios, in a shrine at the
southern foot of the Athenian Acropolis. The bearded
head, too, of the male figure, as drawn by Pars, would
well accord with the type of Asclepios. On the other
hand, the serpent in connection with that deity is usually
coiled round his staff, not winding along the ground,
as on the pediment. The whole composition of this
serpent in relation to the kneeling male figure rather
suggests the t}rpo of the earth-born Cecrops, as has been
maintained by a considerable number of archaeologists.
If we adopt this attribution, then the female figure so
intimately associated with the bearded figure in this
group would be one of the daughters of Cecrops, per-
haps Pandrosos. For the topographical interpretations
of Boetticher (Marathon and Salamis) and of Brunn
(Kithaeron and Parnes) there is no evidence.
Michaelis, pi. 8, fig. 2 ; Murray, II., pi. 9 ; Stereoscopic, No. 111. A
remarkably accurate copy of this group was recently discovered at
Eleusis, and is now in the National Museum at Athens. In the
copy the coils of the serpent are omitted ('E^Tj/xepi's, 1890, pi. 12).
304 D, If B and C are Cecrops and one of his daughters, the
F; F. two female figures (D, F), wrho in Carrey's drawing follow
next, might be his other two daughters. The boy (E)
between them would be, in that case, not the infant
Iakchos between Demeter (D) and Kore (F), as several
writers have supposed, but the young Erysichthon, son
of Cecrops. According to Brunn's scheme these three
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
Wheler took it to represent Hadrian and Sabina, and
their opinion was repeated by Payne Knight. The group
has also been called Heracles and Hebe; Hephaestos
and Aphrodite. The association of the serpent with the
male figure has led Michaelis (p. 193) to recognise in
him Asclepios, in which case the female figure would
naturally bo Hygieia, who is constantly associated
with the father of the healing art, and who was wor-
shipped, conjointly with Asclepios, in a shrine at the
southern foot of the Athenian Acropolis. The bearded
head, too, of the male figure, as drawn by Pars, would
well accord with the type of Asclepios. On the other
hand, the serpent in connection with that deity is usually
coiled round his staff, not winding along the ground,
as on the pediment. The whole composition of this
serpent in relation to the kneeling male figure rather
suggests the t}rpo of the earth-born Cecrops, as has been
maintained by a considerable number of archaeologists.
If we adopt this attribution, then the female figure so
intimately associated with the bearded figure in this
group would be one of the daughters of Cecrops, per-
haps Pandrosos. For the topographical interpretations
of Boetticher (Marathon and Salamis) and of Brunn
(Kithaeron and Parnes) there is no evidence.
Michaelis, pi. 8, fig. 2 ; Murray, II., pi. 9 ; Stereoscopic, No. 111. A
remarkably accurate copy of this group was recently discovered at
Eleusis, and is now in the National Museum at Athens. In the
copy the coils of the serpent are omitted ('E^Tj/xepi's, 1890, pi. 12).
304 D, If B and C are Cecrops and one of his daughters, the
F; F. two female figures (D, F), wrho in Carrey's drawing follow
next, might be his other two daughters. The boy (E)
between them would be, in that case, not the infant
Iakchos between Demeter (D) and Kore (F), as several
writers have supposed, but the young Erysichthon, son
of Cecrops. According to Brunn's scheme these three