Between A and the two next figures (B, C) a space is shown in Dalton's
drawing sufficient for a crouching figure, though no vestige of such a
figure is indicated by Carrey. Traces also remain on the floor of the
pediment (Sauer, _Athenische Mittheilungen_, xvi., p. 78). This gap
may have been filled by a crouching Water Nymph, associated with the
River-god. Brunn suggests a tributary of the Eleusinian Kephissos.
[Sidenote: =304 B, C.=]
Cecrops and Pandrosos (cast).--This group still remains in the
pediment at Athens, though much injured by exposure to the weather. It
consists of a male figure, whose left thigh receives the main weight
of his body, which leans a little to the right, resting on his left
hand. With him is grouped a female figure, who has thrown herself in
haste on both knees, with one arm round the neck of her companion. Her
action expresses surprise at the event occurring in the centre of the
pediment, towards which she has looked back. She wears a long chiton,
and over it a diploïdion which falls below the girdle, and which
has slipped from the left shoulder, leaving the left breast and side
exposed. Her left arm, now entirely wanting, was broken off a little
below the shoulder at the date of Carrey's drawing. The male figure
has a mantle cast over his lower limbs. His right arm, which was
broken off below the elbow in the time of Stuart, is now reduced to
a stump. The right leg and knee and part of the right thigh have also
been lost since the time of Stuart. It appears from the statements of
travellers (cf. Michaelis, p. 194) that these figures lost their heads
in the years 1802 and 1803. The careful drawing of the group made by
Pars, and preserved in the British Museum (Stuart, ii., chap. I., pl.
9; Michaelis, pl. 8, fig. 2), shows that the heads of both figures
were turned towards the central group, the head of the female figure
being, moreover, slightly inclined over the left shoulder. In this
drawing the right arm of the male figure is bent at a right angle, the
upper part being nearly horizontal. On the ground between the pair is
a convex mass, which has been recognised to be part of the coil of a
large serpent. The remainder of this serpent may be seen at the back
of the group, passing under the left hand of the male figure. In front
of this hand the body of the serpent terminates in a joint with a
rectangular sinking, into which a fragment from the Elgin Collection
has been fitted. (_Mus. Marbles_, vi., pl. 8, fig. 2.)
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