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Antiquities. 
this manner by the Athenians, to intimate that 
they held her gifts in perpetuity, and that she 
could not desert them. This goddess was repre¬ 
sented driving the car of Minerva, on the west 
pediment of the Parthenon ; 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 was a small 
stream that ran along the south side of the plain 
of Athens. This figure, which, with the excep¬ 
tion of the Theseus, is the finest in the collec¬ 
tion, occupied the left angle of the west pedi¬ 
ment 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. The¬ 
seus, it is well known, professedly imitated the 
character of Hercules 5 and it is worthy of re¬ 
mark, that the attitude here given to Theseus 
is very similar to that of Hercules on some of 
the coins of Crotona. This wonderfully fine 
statue originally occupied a place in the east 
pediment of the Parthenon, next to the horses 
of Hyperion. 
No. 72 . A torso of Victory, from the east 
pediment of the Parthenon. The wings of this 
figure were probably of bronze: the holes in 
which they were fastened to the marble may 
still be seen. 
No. 73 . A fragment of a group which origin¬ 
ally 
