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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
back at the charioteer, while he moves forward in the
same direction as the horses. The figure drawn by Carrey
has been generally recognised in the torso in the Museum
which has lost the head and lower limbs since Carrey's
time, and is probably the same torso which Dalton repre-
sents lying on the bed of-the pediment. This figure has
been called Erechtheus, Erichthonios, Ares, Cecrops
Theseus, Pan, or Hermes. He is evidently aiding the
charioteer in the management of the horses; an office
very appropriate to Hermes, whose general character as a
guide is expressed by such epithets as Trofxiraio<;, and who
on other monuments is represented conducting a chariot.
The drapery which hangs at the back of the torso
evidently represents a chlamys, which must have been
fastened in front just above the left clavicle, where a hole
is pierced to receive a metallic fastening. There is
another hole between the collar-bones. The right arm
was probably advanced nearly in a horizontal direction ;
the left arm may have had the elbow a little drawn back;
and a portion of the chlamys evidently passed round this
arm, and was probably twisted round it, a fashion of
drapery characteristic of Hermes. Among the fragments
of the Parthenon at Athens is a small piece of the left
shoulder of this figure, a cast of which has been adjusted
to the marble in the Museum. The remains of the left
thigh show that the left leg was advanced as in Carrey's
drawing. The fragments described below, Kos. 339, 9,
and 339, 10, may belong to this figure. A fragment of
plinth, with two feet, sometimes assigned to it, is described
below, No. 329.
Mm. Marbles, VI., pi. 15 ; Michaelis, pi. 8, fig. 3.
L, Athene and Poseidon.—The Athene of which L is the
remnant is drawn by Carrey moving rapidly to the left;
her right arm, broken off above the elbow, is advanced
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
back at the charioteer, while he moves forward in the
same direction as the horses. The figure drawn by Carrey
has been generally recognised in the torso in the Museum
which has lost the head and lower limbs since Carrey's
time, and is probably the same torso which Dalton repre-
sents lying on the bed of-the pediment. This figure has
been called Erechtheus, Erichthonios, Ares, Cecrops
Theseus, Pan, or Hermes. He is evidently aiding the
charioteer in the management of the horses; an office
very appropriate to Hermes, whose general character as a
guide is expressed by such epithets as Trofxiraio<;, and who
on other monuments is represented conducting a chariot.
The drapery which hangs at the back of the torso
evidently represents a chlamys, which must have been
fastened in front just above the left clavicle, where a hole
is pierced to receive a metallic fastening. There is
another hole between the collar-bones. The right arm
was probably advanced nearly in a horizontal direction ;
the left arm may have had the elbow a little drawn back;
and a portion of the chlamys evidently passed round this
arm, and was probably twisted round it, a fashion of
drapery characteristic of Hermes. Among the fragments
of the Parthenon at Athens is a small piece of the left
shoulder of this figure, a cast of which has been adjusted
to the marble in the Museum. The remains of the left
thigh show that the left leg was advanced as in Carrey's
drawing. The fragments described below, Kos. 339, 9,
and 339, 10, may belong to this figure. A fragment of
plinth, with two feet, sometimes assigned to it, is described
below, No. 329.
Mm. Marbles, VI., pi. 15 ; Michaelis, pi. 8, fig. 3.
L, Athene and Poseidon.—The Athene of which L is the
remnant is drawn by Carrey moving rapidly to the left;
her right arm, broken off above the elbow, is advanced