602 E L E U S I S. 
CHAP, concentrated every testimony of this nature 1 , it 
will not be necessary to repeat them here. 
It is sufficient merely to state, that this Statue, 
consisting of the white marble of Penteliciis, 
which also afforded the materials of the Temple, 
bears evident marks of the best age of the 
Grecian sculpture : but it is in a very ruined 
state. A vein of schistus, one of the extraneous 
substances common to the Pentelican marble, 
traversing the whole mass of the stone in a 
direction parallel to the back of the Statue, has 
suffered decomposition during the lapse of ages 
in which it has remained exposed to the action 
of the atmosphere ; and by its exfoliation, has 
caused the face and part of the neck of the 
Statue to fall off; but in the Calathus, which 
yet remains as an ornament of the head, the 
sculpture, although much injured, is still fine : 
and that it was originally finished with the 
greatest elegance and labour, is evident ; because, 
in the foliage of a chaplet which surrounds the 
whole, a small poppy or pomegranate is repre- 
sented upon every leaf, carved and polished 
with all the perfection of a Cameo. The remains 
(l) ** Greek Marbles," Cambridge, 1809. To which may also be 
added the testimony of Perry, as iven in his " View of the Levant,' 
printed in 1 743. 
