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Antiquities, 
and to have formed part of the group already 
described under No. 63. 
No. 68. The head of one of the horses belong¬ 
ing to the chariot of Night, which was repre¬ 
sented 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 spec¬ 
tator. The car of Day has been already de¬ 
scribed, as it was represented rising out of the 
waters on the opposite angle of the same pedi¬ 
ment (Nos. 65, 66). 
No. 69. The Torso of Victoria Apteros, or 
Victory 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 re¬ 
presented driving the car of Minerva, on the 
west pediment of the Parthenon ; the car ap¬ 
proached 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 
