from the east pediment of the Parthenon. This Is Room xv. 
supposed to be one of the sister Fates, and to have antiquities. 
formed part of the group already described under 
No. 63. 
No. 68. The head of one of the horses belonging 
to the chariot of Night, which was represented 
plunging into the ocean on the right angle of the 
east pediment of the Parthenon, that is to say, the 
right angle in reference to the spectator. The car 
of Day has been already described, as it was repre¬ 
sented rising out of the waters on the opposite angle 
of the same pediment, (Nos. 65, 66.) 
No. 69. The torso of Victoria Apteros, or Vic¬ 
tory without wings, who was represented in this 
manner by the Athenians, to intimate that they 
held her gifts in perpetuity, and that she could not 
desert them. This goddess was represented driving 
the car of Minerva, on the west pediment of the Par¬ 
thenon; the car approached Minerva, as if to receive 
her into it, after her successful contest with Neptune. 
No. 70. A recumbent statue, supposed to be of 
the river-god Ilissus. The Ilissus w^as a small stream 
that ran along the south side of the pfain of Athens. 
This figure, which, wdth the exception of the The¬ 
seus, is the finest in the collection, occupied the left 
angle of the west pediment of the Parthenon. 
No. 71. A statue of Theseus, the Athenian hero; 
he is represented half-reclined on a rock, which is 
covered with the skin of a lion. Theseus, it is well 
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