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124 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTUllE.back at the charioteer, while he moves forward in thesame direction as the horses. The figure drawn by Carreyhas been generally recognised in the torso in the Museumwhich has lost the head and lower limbs since Carrey'stime, and is probably the same torso which Daltou representslying on the bed of the pediment.This figure hasbeen called Erechtheus, Erichthonios, Ares, CecropsTheseus, Pan, or Hermes. He is evidently aiding thecharioteer in the management of the horses; an officevery appropriate to Hermes, whose general character as aguide is expressed by such epithets as 7ro/x.7ratos, and whoon other monuments is represented conducting a chariot.The drapery which hangs at the back of the torsoevidently represents a chlamys, which must have beenfastened in front just above the left clavicle, where a holeis pierced to receive a metallic fastening. There isanother hole between the collar-bones. The right armwas probably advanced nearly in a horizontal directionthe left arm may have had the elbow a little drawn backand a portion of the chlamys evidently passed round thisarm, and was probably twisted round it, a fashion ofdrapery characteristic of Hermes. Among the fragmentsof the Parthenon at Athens is a small piece of the leftshoulder of this figure, a cast of which has been adjustedto the marble in the Museum. The remains of the leftthigh show that the left leg was advanced as in Carrey'sdrawing. The fragments described below, Nos. 339, 9,and 339, 10, may belong to this figure. A fragment ofplinth, with two feet, sometimes assigned to it, is describedbelow, No. 329.Mus. Marbles, VI., pi. 15 ;Michaelis, pi. 8, fig. 3.304 L, Athene and Poseidon.—The Athene of which L is theM. remnant is drawn by Carrey moving rapidly to the lefther right arm, broken off above the elbow, is advanced