If we confine our attention to the extant pedimental figures, we find wide differences of opinion as to their interpretation. The figures in the angles are the only ones as to which there can be no doubt. On the left the sun-god, Helios, rises from the ocean, driving his car, and on the right the moon-goddess Selenè sets beneath the horizon. These two figures may be interpreted as marking the boundaries either of Olympos or of the universe. It has also been suggested that they indicate the hour at which the birth took place. This, according to Attic tradition, was at sunrise. Thus far the interpretation rests upon sure grounds. Of the remaining figures in the pediment, J has been generally recognised as Victory greeting the newly born Goddess, and G has been generally taken for Iris, announcing the news to the world (but see below, G). None of the remaining figures have been conclusively identified. Most of the numerous schemes of interpretation that have been proposed are exhibited in a table by Michaelis, _Der Parthenon_, p. 165, cf. _Guide to the Elgin Room, I._, Table A. As regards the general principles of interpretation it is to be observed that the schemes may be divided into two classes. We may either suppose with the earlier critics that the space bounded by Helios and Selenè represents Olympos, and that all the figures contained within this space are definite mythological personages, probably deities, who may be supposed to have been present at the birth; or we may assume that all the deities present were comprised in the central part of the pediment, and that the figures towards the angles belong to the world outside Olympos, to whom the news is brought. These may be definite mythological persons, or they may be figures personifying parts of the natural world. Compare the Homeric Hymn to Athenè, and Pindar, _Olymp._, vii., 35. The best views of this pediment are (1) the drawing of Carrey in the Bibliothèque Nationale (pl. v., fig. 1). A facsimile in the British Museum; in Laborde, _Le Parthénon_, and _Antike Denkmaeler_, I., pl. 6 (exhibited in Elgin Room); (2) sketch by Pars, engraved in Stuart, vol. II., chap. I., pl. 1. The original drawing is in the Print Room of the British Museum. For a list of proposed restorations, see Schneider, _Geburt der Athena_, p. 23, pls. 2-7; Waldstein, _Essays_, p. 139. For Sauer's examination of the pediment, see _Athenische Mittheilungen_, XVI., pl. 3, p. 59; _Antike Denkmaeler_, I., pl. 58. The ends of the pediment are reproduced in figs. 7, 8. [Illustration: Fig. 7.--The South End of the East Pediment of the Parthenon (according to Sauer).] [Illustration: Fig. 8--The North End of the East Pediment of the Parthenon (according to Sauer).] [Sidenote: =303 A.=]