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122 CATALOGUE OP SCULPTURE.Wlieler took it to represent Hadrian and Sabina, andtheir opinion was repeated by Payne Knight, The grouphas also been called Heracles and Hebe; Hephaestosand Aphrodite. The association of the serpent with themale figure has led Michaelis (p. 193) to recognise inhim Asclepios, in which case the female figure wouldnaturally be Hygieia, who is constantly associatedwith the father of the healing art, and who was worshipped,conjointly with Asclepios, in a shrine at thesouthern foot of the Athenian Acropolis. The beardedhead, too, of the male figure, as drawn by Pars, wouldwell accord with the type of Asclepios. On the otherhand, the serpent in connection with that deity is usuallycoiled round his staff, not winding along the ground,as on the pediment. The whole composition of thisserpent in relation to the kneeling male figure rathersuggests the type of the earth-bom Cecrops, as has beenmaintained by a considerable number of archaeologists.If we adopt this attribution, then the female figure sointimately associated with the bearded figure in thisgroup would be one of the daughters of Cecrops, perhapsPandrosos. For the topographical interpretationsof 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. Aremarkably accurate copy of this group was recently discovered atEleusis, and is now in the National Museum at Athens. In thecopy the coils of the serpent are omitted ('Ec^ij/xepis, 1890, pi. 12).304 D, If B and C are Cecrops and one of his daughters, theE, F. two female figures (D, F), who in Carrey's drawing follownext, might be his other two daughters. The boy (E)between them would be, in that case, not the infantlakchos between Demoter (D) and Kore (F), asseveralwriters have supposed, but the young Erysichthon, sonof Cecrops. According to Brunn's scheme these three