ISBN: 9780559800726

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: middle of the last century, when Dalton drew the western pediment, the work of destruction had been carried much further. In the right wing of the composition the figures N, 0, Q, S, T, and in the left wing only four figures, A, B, C, and F? are shown in position on the pediment in Dalton's Plate. In Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: middle of the last century, when Dalton drew the western pediment, the work of destruction had been carried much further. In the right wing of the composition the figures N, 0, Q, S, T, and in the left wing only four figures, A, B, C, and F? are shown in position on the pediment in Dalton's Plate. In the intervening middle space, two torsos are lying on the floor of the pediment. One of these is probably the Poseidon; the other may be the figure marked H. On the ground below the pediment lies the body of a draped figure, perhaps Athene, and a fragment which may belong to the Poseidon (M). All that remained in position in the western pediment when Lord Elgin's agent came to Athens were the figures B and C in the north angle, and in the south angle the lower part of the reclining female figure W. The Kivcr- god A and the torsos H, L, M, 0 were found under the north-west angle of the pediment, after taking down a Turkish house built against the columns. The lower part of a female figure Q may also have been found on this spot. After the Akropolis passed into the possession of the Greek government, the ground round the Parthenon was cleared of its ruins, and this led to the discovery, in 1835, of the crouching male figure V and of many fragments, among which are remains of the horses lowered by Morosini. The sculptures removed by Lord Elgin from this pediment are exhibited in combination with casts of the remains from the composition now at Athens, and may be thus described. [L and M.] Athene and Poseidon-It has been already stated that the central group of Athene and Poseidon is at present represented by the two torsos L and M. The Athene of which L is the remnant is drawn by Carrey moving rapidly to the left; her right arm, broken off above the elbow, and her right Books, History~~General, Synopsis-of-the-Contents-of-the-British-Museum~~Dept-Of-Greek-And-Roman-Antiquities, , , , , , , , , , BiblioBazaar<

ISBN: 9780559800726

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