A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of ... - Warburg Institute

WEST PEDIMENT OF PARTHENON. 125horizontally in the same direction. Her k^ft arm isbroken off below the shoulder ; she wears a long chiton,over which is a dipluidion, reaching to the hips, andfalling in a i'old over the girdle. Tbe aegis, folded like anarrow band, passes obliquely across the bosom betweenthe breasts, and has extended from ihe right shoulderround the left side, and probably across the back. It isscalloped on its lower edge, and at the points holes arepierced for the attachment of serpents of metal. In thecentre of the ajgis is another hole, in which a circularobject six inches in diameter, doubtless a Gorgoneion,has been fixed. Carrey's drawing shows the base ofthe neck, which was broken off before the time of LordElgin. It has been recognised among the fragmentson the Acropolis, and a cast of it is now adjusted to themarble. It is evident from this that the head of thegoddess was turned towards her antagonist.Mus. Marbles, VI., pi. 16; Michaelis, pi. 8, fig. 13.304 M. The torso of Poseidon is made up of three parts. Thefragment with the shoulders and upper part of the chestwas removed by Lord Elgin ; the fragment containingthe remaindi^rof the breast and the abdomen nearly tothe navel has been since discovered, and theat Athens.original isSince this torso was engraved in the work ofMichaelis (pi. 8, fig. 16), a small piece has been addedto the lower part of the abdomen. It appears fromCarrey's drawing that Poseidon was starting back ina direction contrary to that of Athene, with the weightof his body thrown on the left knee, which is bent.Carrey's drawing shows the same portion of the rightupper arm, which is preserved. It is raised withthe shoulder and may have been extended in a nearlyhorizontal direction. The head in Carrey's drawing isslightly inclined over the right shoulder. At the back