A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Part 40

[Sidenote: 13.]

Fragment of left thigh, near the knee, of colossal figure; on it falls a corner of drapery to which is attached a gland. Sauer proposes to a.s.sign this fragment to the figure S of the west pediment.

Length, 9-1/2 inches. _Athenische Mittheilungen_, 1891, p. 79.

[Sidenote: 14.]

Right thigh and knee of a male figure, rather larger than life. It is very doubtful whether this belongs to the Parthenon.

Length, 10 inches.

[Sidenote: 15.]

Fragment of right leg of small figure, broken off above ankle and below knee. It has been attached at the back.

Length, 11 inches.

[Sidenote: 16.]

Left hand of colossal female figure clasped round an uncertain object. The hand is broken off at the wrist; the forefinger and middle finger are wanting. There is no evidence that this hand belongs to the Parthenon. The scale, however, is suitable to one of the central figures of the west pediment. If the hand is derived thence, it is possible that the hand is a hand of Athene, and that the object it holds is not the base of a torch, as has been suggested, but part of the olive-tree. In that case Athene would be placing her left hand on a projecting bough of her tree.

Length of third finger, 6-1/4 inches. Overbeck, _Ber. d. k. sachs.

Ges. d. Wissenschaften_, 1880, pl. 3.

[Sidenote: 17.]

Fragment of an olive-tree with foliage.

Height, 6-1/2 inches.

[Sidenote: 18.]

Similar fragment of olive-tree, larger than last.

Height, 1 foot 4 inches. Michaelis, pl. 8, fig. 15.

[Sidenote: 19.]

Fragment of ankle and part of calf of right leg wearing high boot and attached on the right side to the trunk of a tree. It is highly improbable that this fragment belonged to the Parthenon.

Height, 1 foot 3 inches.

[Sidenote: 20.]

Left hand and wrist of male figure; the palm is grooved for the reception of some object like a staff; the thumb, forefinger, and upper joints of the other fingers are wanting. The scale is rather larger than that of the so-called Theseus (D) of the east pediment, to which the fragment has been attributed by Overbeck.

The wrist is slightly bent inwards. This hand is finely modelled.

Length, 9-1/2 inches. Overbeck, _Ber. d. k. sachs. Ges. d.

Wissenschaften_, 1880, p. 43.

[Sidenote: 21.]

Fragment of left hand and wrist of male figure, the hand much bent back as if the figure had rested on the open palm; broken across the middle of the metacarpal bones; possibly the left hand of the River-G.o.d V in the west pediment. See No. 304 V.

Breadth, 6-1/4 inches.

[Sidenote: 22.]

Right hand of female figure, small; the thumb and fingers broken off.

Breadth of palm, 4-1/4 inches.

[Sidenote: 23.]

Right hand; the thumb and fingers broken off.

Breadth of palm, 4-3/4 inches.

[Sidenote: 24.]

Right arm of female figure, slightly bent; the upper arm broken about the bottom of the biceps; the under side is worked rough.

Length, 1 foot 2 inches.

[Sidenote: 25.]

Fragment of left upper arm of female figure with sleeve of chiton fastened with studs (Michaelis, pl. 8, fig. 25).

Length, 8-1/2 inches.

[Sidenote: 26.]

Fragment of right shoulder and upper part of back of arm of female figure; over the shoulder is drapery.

Height, 1 foot 1/2 inch.

[Sidenote: 27.]

Fragment of right hip and right side of body nearly to the navel, of a boy, possibly from the west pediment.

Greatest height, 8 inches.

[Sidenote: 28.]

Left breast of female figure, draped; the drapery has been fastened on the left shoulder. This may be part of the figure of Callirrhoe (W) in the west pediment.

Height, 1 foot.