This figure, which is commonly known as Theseus, reclines on a rock and faces the horses of Helios. He leans on his left arm in an easy attitude. The right arm is bent, but, as the hand is wanting, we can only form conjectures as to what its action may have been. It probably held a spear, or some other long object, the end of which may have been attached to the left ankle at the place where a dowel hole is still visible. According to some writers, the hole served for the attachment of the laced work of a sandal in bronze. (_Ber. d. k. sächs. Ges. d. Wissenschaften_, 1880, p. 44.) The legs are bent, the left leg drawn back under the right. The headdress is in the form of the krobylos (cf. No. 209). The body is entirely nude: over the rock on which the figure rests is thrown a mantle under which is strewn a skin, the claws of which are certainly those of some feline animal. The type and position of this figure present so much resemblance to the Heracles on the silver coins of Croton in Lower Italy (_Mus. Marbles_, vi., title-page), that it has been identified with that hero by Visconti, who supposed the skin on which he reclines to be that of a lion. This skin, however, seems more like that of a panther, on which ground the figure has been thought to be Dionysos, who appears in a very similar reclining attitude on another Athenian work, the Choragic monument of Lysicrates (No. 430, _1_); compare the statue in the Louvre, Müller-Wieseler, _Denkmaeler_, ii., pl. 32, No. 360. Compare also the figure of Dionysos reclining, on a relief on an _askos_ in the British Museum, No. G. 281 (see fig. 9). The figure, however, differs greatly in character, not only from the figure on the monument of Lysicrates, but also from the figure sometimes supposed to be Dionysos on the frieze of the Parthenon. (East side, No. 38.) More recently Brunn has interpreted this figure as the mountain of Olympos illumined by the first rays of the rising sun, and it must be acknowledged that the attitude and type of the so-called Theseus is very suitable for the personification of a mountain. Compare the figures of mountains from reliefs, collected by Waldstein (_Essays_, pp. 173, 174). [Illustration: Fig. 9.] _Mus. Marbles_, VI., pls. 3, 4; Baumeister, _Denkmaeler_, p. 1180, fig. 1370; Michaelis, pl. 6, fig. 10; Overbeck, _Gr. Plast._, 3rd ed., I., p. 304, fig. 62; Murray, II., pl. 5; _Stereoscopic_, No. 105; Waldstein, _Essays_, pl. 6; Brunn, _Ber. der k. bayer. Akad., Phil. hist. Cl._, 1874, II., p. 14. The correct position of the figure in the pediment has been ascertained by Sauer (_cf._ fig. 7). [Sidenote: =303 E, F.=]