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46 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
figure (Q), where they rest on an end of drapery, probably
his himation, which reappears, wound round his left thigh.
The upper part of this boy was recently recognised (by
Schwerzek) in a torso that had formerly been taken for a
fragment of a Lapith from a metope (No. 342, 2, in the
first edition of this catalogue). The right arm was still
preserved in the time of Carrey, but the head and left arm
were in their present state.
If we suppose that the principal figure is a marine
goddess, of the train of Poseidon, the name Leucothea
seems the best attribution, and the youth at her side
would then be Palaemon. According to Furtwaengler's
scheme, in which we have on this side the daughters of
Erechtheus, this figure is Oreitbyia, represented by a
strong prolepsis with the children that she bore to Boreas,
when he carried her off from Athens. The deeply under-
cut folds of drapery, which appear to be agitated by a
breeze, are thus explained. No other instance, how-
ever, is known in early times in which the Boreads
are wingless, and little weight can be attached to
the fact that Ovid speaks of their wings growing with
their beards. (Met. vi., 712.) In Brunn's topographical
scheme, P Q are the coast of Attica from Munychia to
the Piraeus.
Mus. Marbles, VI., pi. 19; Michaelis. pi. 8, fig. 19; Journ. of Hellenic
Studies, XIII., pi. 5, p. 88; Furtwaengler, Meisterxerke, p. 236.
304 K. A figure of a child appears in Carrey's drawing on the
left of the figure Q. It is doubtful whether it should
be associated most nearly with Q or with the figure next
to the right (S). On the former supposition, the figure
called above Leucothea has been interpreted as Leto with
Apollo and Artemis; as Leda with the Dioscuri; as
Postering Earth, T^ Kouporpo<pos, with children; or as
Oreithyiawith the Boreads (see above). On the latter
figure (Q), where they rest on an end of drapery, probably
his himation, which reappears, wound round his left thigh.
The upper part of this boy was recently recognised (by
Schwerzek) in a torso that had formerly been taken for a
fragment of a Lapith from a metope (No. 342, 2, in the
first edition of this catalogue). The right arm was still
preserved in the time of Carrey, but the head and left arm
were in their present state.
If we suppose that the principal figure is a marine
goddess, of the train of Poseidon, the name Leucothea
seems the best attribution, and the youth at her side
would then be Palaemon. According to Furtwaengler's
scheme, in which we have on this side the daughters of
Erechtheus, this figure is Oreitbyia, represented by a
strong prolepsis with the children that she bore to Boreas,
when he carried her off from Athens. The deeply under-
cut folds of drapery, which appear to be agitated by a
breeze, are thus explained. No other instance, how-
ever, is known in early times in which the Boreads
are wingless, and little weight can be attached to
the fact that Ovid speaks of their wings growing with
their beards. (Met. vi., 712.) In Brunn's topographical
scheme, P Q are the coast of Attica from Munychia to
the Piraeus.
Mus. Marbles, VI., pi. 19; Michaelis. pi. 8, fig. 19; Journ. of Hellenic
Studies, XIII., pi. 5, p. 88; Furtwaengler, Meisterxerke, p. 236.
304 K. A figure of a child appears in Carrey's drawing on the
left of the figure Q. It is doubtful whether it should
be associated most nearly with Q or with the figure next
to the right (S). On the former supposition, the figure
called above Leucothea has been interpreted as Leto with
Apollo and Artemis; as Leda with the Dioscuri; as
Postering Earth, T^ Kouporpo<pos, with children; or as
Oreithyiawith the Boreads (see above). On the latter