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nearly alike in their construction, both of them being furnished with 
cushions, and ornamented with mouldings of a similar style. (77.) 
No. 95. A statue of Iris, one of the daughters of Oceanus, and 
the messenger of the celestial deities, particularly of Juno. Iris is re¬ 
presented in quick motion, with her veil inflated and fluttering 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. (74.) 
No. 96. A torso of Victory. The wings of this figure were pro¬ 
bably of bronze: the holes in which they were fastened to the marble 
may still be seen. (72, 262.) 
No. 97. A group of the three Fates. (67, 63.) 
No. 98. The head of one of the horses belonging to the chariot of 
Night, Selene, or the Moon, which was represented plunging into the 
ocean on the right angle of the east pediment, that is to say, the right 
angle in reference to the spectator. The car of Day has been already 
described, (Nos. 91, 92,) as it was represented rising out of the waters 
on the opposite angle of the same pediment. (68.) 
No. 99. A recumbent statue, supposed to be of the river-god Ilis- 
sus. The Ilissus w T as a small stream that ran along the south side of 
the plain of Athens. This figure, which, with the exception of the 
Theseus, is the finest in the collection, occupied the left angle of the 
wefet pediment. (70.) 
No. 100. The torso of a male figure, supposed to be that of Ce- 
crops, the founder of Athens. (76.) 
No. 101. The upper part of the head of Minerva. (See the fol¬ 
lowing No.) This head was originally covered with a bronze helmet, 
as appears from the holes by which it was fastened to the marble : and 
the sockets of the eyes, which w r ere originally filled with metal or 
coloured stones, are now hollow. (118.) 
No. 102. A fragment of the statue of Minerva, one of the prin¬ 
cipal figures in the w^est pediment, and of nearly the same proportions 
as the torso of Neptune, from the same pediment. (No. 103.) This 
fragment consists of a portion only of the chest of the goddess, wdiich 
is covered, as usual, with the aegis. The angles of the aegis appear to 
have been ornamented with bronze serpents, and the centre of it to 
have been studded with the head of Medusa, of the same metal; the 
holes in winch these ornaments were fastened to the marble are plainly 
visible. The upper part of the head of this statue, the feet, and a por¬ 
tion of the Erichthonian serpent, are preserved in the collection. See 
Nos. 101, 256, and 104. (75 ) 
No. 103. The upper part of the torso of Neptune, one of the princi¬ 
pal figures in the west pediment. (64.) 
No. 104. See No. 102. (271.) 
No 105. 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 represented driving the car of Minerva, on the west 
pediment; the car approached Minerva, as if to receive her into it, after 
her successful contest with Neptune. (69.) 
No. 106. A fragment of a group which originally consisted of La- 
tona with her two children, Apollo and Diana. T his group w^as placed 
on the right side of the west pediment. All that remains m the fragment 
