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AEGINA. 75xvii. ; Wolters, p. 48). Others have argued that thepresence of Paris points to the fight over the body ofAchilles as described in the Aethiopis of Arctinos. Seeespecially" Brunn, Beschreihung, p. 79. On account of thediscrepancies between the sculptures and the literarytraditionit is impossible to decide the question.The arrangement adopted in the British Museum isthat of Cocketell (pi. 16). To complete the groupCockerell supposed that nude figures similar to No. 178 ofthe East pediment advanced to the fallen hero from eachside ; and that a spearman knelt between the Paris(No. 168) and the wounded Trojan. Fragments remain ofthe two youths ; but recent writers have put the spearman(No. 166) next the Paris. The positions of the spearmenand tlie archers on each side have also been reversed.The archers are on this view placed furthest from thecombat, and may perhaps be supposed to be protected bythe spearmen. Further changes have been proposedwhich are based on fragments not represented by casts,and which therefore need not here be discussed.Reiitorations of the Weit Pediment. (I) With 11 figures, the bowmenin front of the spearmen. Cockerell, supplementary plate ;Blouet, Exp. de Mor€e, III., pi. 58, fig. 2 ;Muller, Denkmaeler, I.,pis. 6, 7 ; Overbeck, Or. Plast., 3rd ed., I., fig. 19a ; Murray, I.,pi. 7. (2) With 11 figure*, the bowmen behind the spearmen.Cockerell, plate ; Brunn, Sitxungsber. der k. hayer. Akad., 1868,II., plate; Lange, Ber. derk. sacks. Ges. d. Wissenschaftcn, 1878,pi. 3, fig. 1. (3) With 13 figures. Cockerell, pi. 16. (4) With14- figures. Lange, loc. cit., pi. 3, fig. 2 ; Overbeck, Gr. Plast.,3rd ed., I., fig. 196.The figures beginning from the left of the West pedimentare :—160. Wounded Greek, recumbent, disarmed, drawing anarrow from his right breast.Restored :—Nose, right forearm, left leg from knee to ankle and toesCockerell, pi. 15, No, 11 ; pi. 16; Blouet, III., pi. 69, fig. 2;Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 25.