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recumbent and two seated female figures, which have been called the 
three Fates; head of a horse from the chariot of the Moon, descend- 
ing beneath the horizon. 
On the opposite side of the room are the remains of the Western 
pediment, in which was represented the contest of Athene with 
Poseidon for the soil of Attica. Though this composition is now in a 
more fragmentary state than the other, it was more perfect in 
a.d. 1674, when drawings, still extant, were made of the sculptures 
of the temple by Carrey, a French artist, and we are thus enabled to 
supply many of the missing portions with greater certainty. Those 
statues which still remain at Athens are here represented by casts. 
Beginning at the North end the figures are as follow : — 
Kecumbent statue, generally called the river-god Ilissos, but more 
probably the Kephissos ; cast of a group, commonly known as Hera- 
kles and Hebe ; male torso, supposed to represent Kekrops, the first 
king of Attica ; upper part of a female head ; fragment of the breast 
of Athene ; upper part of the torso of Poseidon ; draped female torso, 
supposed to be Amphitrite ; lower part of a seated female figure, per- 
haps Leto ; cast of the torso of a crouching male figure, by some 
considered as the river-god Kephissos, but more probably the Ilissos ; 
part of a recumbent female figure, perhaps the nymph Kallirrhoe. 
On a table in the South-East angle of the room are casts from some 
fragments of horses discovered in excavations on the Acropolis, and now 
preserved there. These fragments, doubtless, belong to the chariot 
group on the western pediment, which Morosini broke in trying to lower 
it, and which, as will be seen by reference to the model, stood immedi- 
ately behind the figure of Athene, balancing the chariot of Poseidon 
in the opposite half of the pediment. 
Attached to the Western wall of the room are fifteen of the me- 
topes, and a cast from another, which is now in the Museum of the 
Louvre, at Paris. They are all from the South side of the Parthenon, 
and represent combats between Centaurs and Lapithae. Casts from 
three other metopes, still remaining at Athens, and representing 
various subjects, are inserted in the adjoining walls. 
Around the room are placed in a continuous line the slabs removed 
by Lord Elgin from the frieze of the cella, with casts of a few other 
slabs still existing on the temple, forming altogether more than one- 
half of the entire series. They are arranged, as far as possible, in 
their original order, but it is necessary to bear in mind that, owing to 
the absence of a considerable portion, several slabs, not formerly con- 
nected, are here brought into juxtaposition, and that the effect of the 
whole frieze is in one sense reversed, by being made an internal, instead 
of an external, decoration. The subject of the bas-reliefs is the Pan- 
athenaic procession, which took place at the festival celebrated every 
four years at Athens in honour of Athene. 
At the East end of the temple were originally placed the slabs 
(numbered, in red figures,) 17-24. On two of them (Xos. 18, 19 
are deities, seated; and a priest receiving from a boy the pejAos, or 
sacred robe of Athene. On each side approach trains of females, 
