Ilissos or Kephissos and Callirrhoè (?).--(Casts) The draped female figure (W) reclining in the extreme angle of the pediment appears in Carrey's drawing leaning on her right elbow, and with her head turned towards the male figure (V) who kneels on both knees, inclining his body towards his companion, and leaning on his left arm. The manner in which these figures are here associated suggests an intimate relation between the two; the female figure has all the characteristics of a local Nymph, and the flow of her drapery would well accord with an aquatic type. It seems probable, therefore, that the celebrated Athenian fountain Callirrhoè may be personified by this figure, and in that case the male figure next to her (V), though not in the reclining attitude usually characteristic of River-gods, may be the Ilissos, out of whose bed the fountain Callirrhoè rises. Brunn holds that V is a personification of the Attic coast, Paralia. This, however, appears, from a recently-discovered inscription, to be represented as female (_Athenische Mittheilungen_, xiii., p. 221); W according to the same archæologist is a personification of the Myrtoan Sea. Dalton's drawing shows no indication of either of these figures, though the lower half of the Callirrhoè is to this day in position on the pediment. The torso of the male figure had been broken, and was found in two places in the excavations on the Acropolis in 1833. The head, arms, and left leg have disappeared since Carrey's time. The right leg is doubled up under the figure; the left knee must have been somewhat higher. This figure is nude with the exception of a chlamys which falls down the back and passes in front over the right ankle. For a fragment which may belong to the left hand, see No. 339, _20_. This agrees with the statement of Sauer (_Athenische Mittheilungen_, 1891, p. 81), that the figure leant with open hand on the ground. The female figure (W) is reclining on her right side; the right knee has been more bent than the left. The upper part of the body seems, from the direction of the folds of the drapery, to have been slightly raised, and to have rested on the right elbow, as represented in Carrey's drawing. The dress is a long chiton, over which falls a diploïdion nearly to the waist. All that remains of the figure are the right side from below the arm to a little below the right hip, and parts of both legs wanting the knees. According to Carrey the left arm of this figure was raised so that the hand projected beyond the cornice. Between the figures V and W a hole is pierced in the bed of the pediment, in which some bronze object was inserted. Figure V., Laborde, _Le Parthénon_; Michaelis, pl. 8, fig. 21; Figure W., Michaelis, pl. 8, fig. 22. METOPES OF THE PARTHENON.