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EAST PEDIMENT OF PARTHENON. 107mouth. The head of the otlier horse on tliis block (C),wliich was advanced bej'ond the outside head, so as to bevisible, is nearly destroyed; only the neck and back ofthe head remain.3Ius. Mar'Jcs, VI., ]'). 2 ;Michaelis, pi. 6, fii^. 9 ;Stereoscopic, No. 105.For the two heads still on the pediment, see Athenische MittheiluiKjen,XVI., p. 81.303 D. This figure, wliich is commonly known as Theseus,reclines on a rock and faces the horses of Helios. Heleans on his left arm in an easy attitude. The rightarm is bent, but, as the hand is wanting, we can only formconjectures as to what its action may have been. Itprobably held a spear, or some other long object, theend of which may have been attached to the left ankleat the place where a dowel hole is still visible.to some writers, the hole served forAccordingthe attachment of thelaced work of a sandal in bronze. (^Ber. d. h. sdclis. Ges.d. Wissenscha/ten, 1880, p. 44.) The legs are bent, theleft leg drawn back under the right. The headdress isin the form of the krobylos (cf. No. 209). The body isentirely nude : over the rock on which the figure rests isthrown a mantle under which is strewn a skin, the clawsof which are certainly those of some feline animal.Thetype and position of this figure present so much resemblanceto the Heracles on the silver coins of Croton inLower Italy (Mus. Marbles, vi., title-page), that it hasbeen identified with that hero by Visconti, who supposedthe skin on which he reclines to be that of a lion. Thisskin, however, seems more like that of a panther, on whichground the figure has been thought to bo Dionysos, whoappears in a very similar reclining attitude on anotherAthenian work, the Choragic monument of Lysicrates(No. 430, 1) ; compare the statue in the Louvre, Miiller-Wiesoler, Denhmacler, ii., pi. 32, No. 3G0. Compare alsothe figure of Dionysos reclining, on a relief on uu asJcos iu