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 THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES. I IJ amongst whom were children. The figures nearer the chariots were mostly seated, in the angles were reclining figures, on the left a nude male, on the right a draped female. Throughout is variety of incident, yet balance is maintained. On either hand Carrey's drawing shows a space which seems to interrupt the series of figures, (x and y, Fig. 1 14.) The evidence given by the marks on the pediment as to the two gaps is not conclusive. Sauer put a figure on the left but not on the right. Furtwangler argued from the same traces that figures were called for in both places. Dr Murray rejected both.* More lately still, Schwerzek has again rejected the Fig. 117. — E. Pediment: Horses of the Sun. -figure on the right. The question needs to be approached apart from theories of interpretation, which are apt to bias the judgment. The figure on the left is now generally accepted, and on the broad grounds of the architectural balance of the lines and quantities in both halves of the pediment, it seems to me that a figure should be assumed on the right side. With the exception •of these spaces the figures are set close together, even over- lapping one another, as if the intention had been to cover up the whole field of the pediment. Leake accepted both the proposed figures. Cockerell, in his restoration, rejected the one hardly a doubt would remain, but they did not.
 * He speaks of them as "corresponding gaps." If they corresponded,