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pediment of the Parthenon. The wings of this Room xv 
figure were probably of bronze; the holes in antiquities 
which they v/ere fastened to the marble may still 
be seen. 
No. 73. A fragment of a group which origi¬ 
nally consisted of Latona with her two children, 
Apollo and Diana. This group was placed on 
the right side of the west pediment of the Par¬ 
thenon. All that remains in the fragment before 
us is the lap of Latona, with a small portion of 
the figure of the infant Apollo. 
No. 74. A statue of Iris, one of the daughters 
of Oceanus, and the messenger of the celestial 
deities, particularly of Juno. It is from the east 
pediment of the Parthenon. Iris is represented 
in quick motion, with her veil inflated and flut¬ 
tering behind her ; and she appears evidently in 
haste to execute the mission on which she is sent, 
that of communicating to the distant regions of 
the earth the important intelligence of the birth 
of Minerva. 
No. 75. A fragment of the statue of Minerva, 
one of the principal figures in the west pediment 
of the Parthenon, and of nearly the same pro¬ 
portions as the torso of Neptune, from the same 
pediment (No. 64). This fragment consists of a 
portion only of the chest of the goddess, which 
is covered, as usual, with the mgis. The angles 
of the mgis appear to have been ornamented with 
bronze serpents, and the centre of it to have been 
studded 
