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

74 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.The statues are made of Parian marble. They areattached to plinths which were let into the npper surfaceof the cornice, and are cut out of single blocks, a fewsmall pieces of marble being separately attached. Theyshowed clear traces of colour throughout, when firstdiscovered. One shield from the east pediment waspainted with a female figure. There were numerousadjuncts of bronze, such as arms and ornaments, whichhave been minutely enumerated by Brunn {Beschreihung,&c., p. 67). The restored pediments in the BritishMuseum have been partially decorated in accordance with" The members of thethe scheme of Cockerell, who says :entablature and pediment were discovered often in alltheir original vividness, which quickly disappeared onexposure to the atmosphere." (Cockerell, p. 27, pi. 6).C. R. Cockerell, The Temple of Jupiter Fanhellenius at Aegina, &c.,1860; Biouet, Expedition de Mor€e, III., p. 23; Brunn, Ucherdis Alter der Aeginetischen Bildwerke in the Sitzungsher. der k.bayer, Akad., 1867, I., p. 405, and Ueber die Composition derAeginetischen Giehelgruppen, ibidem, 1868, II., p. 448 ; Brunn,BeschreHmng der Glyptothek Konig Luiwig's /., 4th ed., 1879 ;Wolters, Nos. 69-85.The West Pediment of the Temple at Aegina.The subject of the West pediment isa battle, in thepresence of Athene, over the body of a wounded warrior.From the Oriental dress of the archer on the right, it isinferred that the battle is being fought between Greeksand Trojans, and that the archer in question is Paris.The scene represented does not correspond exactly withany combat described by Homer. Archaeologists haveaccordingly been divided in opinion as to the subject.Some hold that the battle is that waged for the body ofPatroclos, which was rescued principally by Menelaos,and Ajax, son of Telainon of Aegina. (Homer, Iliad,