Left breast of female figure, draped; the drapery has been
fastened on the left shoulder. This may be part of the figure of
Callirrhoè (W) in the west pediment.
Height, 1 foot.
[Sidenote: 29.]
Left breast of female figure, the drapery strained over it; the
scale is similar to that of the figure C in the west pediment.
Height, 9 inches.
[Sidenote: =340.=]
Cast of a marble head in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, wrongly
assigned by C. Lenormant to the pediments of the Parthenon.
Height, 1 foot 9 inches. _Gaz. Arch._, 1875, pl. 1; Wolters,
No. 1280; Laborde, _Athènes_, I., p. 157; Michaelis, p. 202, B*;
Babelon, _Cabinet des Antiques à la Bibl. Nat._, pl. 20.
CASTS FROM FRAGMENTS OF CHARIOT-HORSES OF WEST PEDIMENT.
[Sidenote: =341.=]
A large number of small fragments of horses from the west pediment has
been discovered. Several of these fragments have been proved to have
belonged to the horses of Poseidon, which were lost before the visit
of Cyriac of Ancona, in 1447. Others belonged to the group of horses,
which was let fall by Morosini's workmen. Casts of these are preserved
in the British Museum, but only the most remarkable are exhibited in
the Elgin Room.
[Sidenote: 1.]
Horse's head broken off at the setting off of the neck. The nose
wanting. The mane, which has been hogged, and the surface of this
head in several places are broken away. This fragment and the two
following are assigned by Sauer to the chariot of Poseidon.
Michaelis, pl. 8, J. K. _a_; Laborde, pl. 26, fig. 25.
[Sidenote: 2.]
Horse's head, lower half broken away. The mane hogged, with a
loose lock in front. Behind the ears a groove and two perforations
are worked in the mane, and above the ears two other perforations
for the attachment of trappings of metal.
Overbeck, _Ber. d. k. sächs. Ges. d. Wissenschaften_, 1879,
pl. 1, fig. 3.
[Sidenote: 3.]
A right hindleg from the stifle joint to the pastern, bent, so as
to indicate a rearing action. From below the hough to the hoof the
leg is carved out of a block resting on the bed of the pediment.
The greater part was sculptured on another block also set in the
bed, which is now wanting, and was fitted to the first block at
a joint roughly tooled. The outside of the haunch and hough have
been cut away, evidently to gain room for the left hindleg of
another horse, or, according to Sauer, for the chariot-pole. This
limb is composed of three separate fragments.
Michaelis, pl. 8, J. K. _f_; Laborde, pl. 26, fig. 40; Overbeck,
_Ber. d. k. sächs. Gesell. d. Wissenschaften_, 1879, p. 72, pl. 1;
and 1880, p. 161.
[Sidenote: 4.]
Left hindleg from stifle to below hough, bent, made up of two
fragments; the upper one may be Michaelis, pl. 8, J. K. _g_;
Laborde, pl. 26, fig. 36.
[Sidenote: 5.]
Left thigh from below stifle; the outer side split off, broken off
in the hough joint.
[Sidenote: 6.]
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