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THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES. II9 and rising figures on each side ; on either side, nearing the centre, a group made up of a woman, a nude figure, and a second woman followed, then came the chariot groups. Or, reckoning inversely from the centre, point by point, there would seem to have been balance. The nude figure on the left side surely must have been a pendant to the other on the right, and so of the next figure it rests on. Then there is a similar woman's figure on each side. Then, on the left, is an important male figure, and on the right a space. Beyond these is a figure Fig. 119. — E. Pediment : Demeter and Persephone. on the right, and on the left a space ; and finally, on both sides, are similarly reclining figures. Altogether, it seems to me, that there must have been a series which we may represent thus : — ■ I. X. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. Y. 2. I. of which (2) on the left, and (3) on the right, have fallen out. Accepting the empty space on the right, there would be only nine figures on that side, while there were ten on the left. From Dalton's drawing of 1749 (Fig. 115), we may see that the falling of blocks of the pediment probably destroyed figures on both the right and the left ; the floor of the pediment is also broken K