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Il8 THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES. on the right, but spread the leg of the next figure beyond the space on the right, so as to partly fill up the gap. But the actual figure since found shows that its leg was gathered close under the body; and this compactness calls for a figure closely adjoining. I have tried to test the question by comparing the known position of figures on the right and left of the pediment. In the diagram, fig. 114, the figures v and w, were traced in their proper situation from Sauer's Survey. The tracing paper was Fig. 118. — E. Pediment : Dionysos. reversed, and the two figures, B and C, were then traced from their proper positions on the left, as measured from both the centre line and the angle. The figure C, on the left, which corresponds with that postulated on the right, fits exactly where it should. Surely, if there had been no such figure in the space on the right, the two known figures next the angle would have been spread a little towards the centre. Again, reasoning from the balance of the composition, it would seem that there must have been a pair of reclining and crouching figures in each remote angle — that there must then have been a pair of seated