Page:Greek Buildings Represented by Fragments in the British Museum (1908).djvu/136

 I20 THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES. away at these points. Further, from Dalton's drawing, we know that the figure 4, next to the right hand gap, had fallen before he made his drawing. Clearly this was a point of weakness. The question is complicated by the fact that the great woman's figure, next behind the right chariot, had two nude children associated with her. It may be claimed, and with this view I am disposed to agree, that they were only emblems too small to count amongst the figures ; on the other hand, it may be held that these two compensated for one larger figure on the left. Taking this view, Schwerzek has minimised the import- ance of the left nude figure, but other difficulties spring up regarding such a solution. I feel that the gleaming bodies of the nude figures must have been most im- portant points in the com- position, and we should naturally expect that one on the left balanced one on the right. 1 must leave this tedious question without having found anything which I can consider a proof, but I incline to the view that the evidence points to there having been figures in both the gaps shown in Carrey's drawings. The figure of " Victory," so named because the mortice- holes in the shoulders, showed that it had had wings, has usually been described as having belonged to the east pediment, although many writers have raised objections. The reasons advanced in the last edition of the Museum Fig. 120. — E. Pediment : " Iris' (Ilithyia?).