Next in Carrey's drawing comes a draped female figure (T), seated, in
whose lap is a naked figure (S), supposed by Carrey to be female.
This is generally supposed to be Thalassa, the Sea; the almost entire
nudity of the figure in her lap (S) makes it probable that Aphroditè
is here represented; her position in the lap of Thalassa would be
a way of expressing her sea-born origin. According to Brunn, T is a
personification of Cape Colias, and the figure of Aphroditè indicates
a shrine of that Goddess which stood on the cape. If, as seems
probable, the naked female figure is Aphroditè, the boy (R) is
probably Eros. Both the female figures were still in the pediment when
Dalton drew it. The marble fragment (T), representing the right thigh
of a draped female figure seated on a rock, is probably the only
extant remnant of Thalassa. A mantle has been brought round the lower
limbs of this figure, so that one edge of it falls on the rock on
which she is seated. This disposition of the drapery is indicated in
Carrey's drawing. (Michaelis, pl. 8, fig. 20.)
[Sidenote: =304 U.=]
Next in Carrey's drawing comes a female figure (U), seated and draped.
This had fallen out of the pediment when Dalton drew it, and no
fragment of it can now be identified. It had lost the head and arms
in Carrey's time. The figure presents no distinctive characteristic
by which she may be identified. She is probably a marine deity. Brunn
interprets her as a personification of Cape Zoster.
[Sidenote: =304 V, W.=]
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