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 THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES. 1 33 there can hardly be a doubt that Cockerell was right in making him grasp at their bridles. The Kertsch vase shows the same motive in representing the scene. At the back of the shoulders of the marble fragment of Poseidon in the British Museum, there is a curious rough patch. Can a small flying mantle have been attached, like that shown on the vase ? VIII. Turning to the figure on the extreme left, the " Ilissos," we can see from a portion of the drapery above the knee that the right arm was outstretched and grasped it at this point. And this is confirmed by the early drawings made when a part of the forearm remained. The head must have been turned over the left shoulder, regarding the action at the centre — and this is shown by the corresponding figure on the right of the pediment, which retained its head when Carrey made his drawing. (Fig. 133.) IX. The next two figures are now usually called Cecrops and his wife or daughter, although I know of no proof which has yet been offered, which necessitates the Fig. i33._w. Pediment : Restoration abandonment of Brunn's of First Figure. " animated map " idea, which Dr Waldstein supported so lately as 1885. Both seem to have been seated, but she with a startled action rises to her knees, throwing a magnificent matronly arm, weighty yet soft, over his shoulders. He also draws his legs back to rise. It is always said that by his side is a serpent. Thus, in the cata- logue we read : " On the ground between the pair is a convex mass, which has been recognised to be part of the coil of a large serpent. The association of the serpent with the male figure led Michaelis to recognise in him Asclepios. The rela- tion, however, of a serpent to the kneeling figure, rather suggests the type of the earth-born Cecrops."* And Furtwangler says, " Cecrops, the snake-man, was properly conceived as ending attribution ... If B and C are Cecrops and one of his daughters," &c.
 * In the new Guide, 1908, the question is still open : " If we adopt this