Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)
Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 66
were formerly attached. No. 103 represents the torso of the figure of Poseidon. WhenSpon and Wheler were at Athens it was nearly entire. It ap-pears from Carreys drawing that this figure and that of PallasAthene occupied the centre of this Pediment, the strife of the twoDeities being expressed by… … No. lUo. No. 105 represents the torso of Amphitrite, who was repre-sented driving the chariot of Poseidon. In Carreys drawing the position of this torso and ofthe statue of Athene is veryclear. When perfect the postureof this figure was a little inclinedforwards, as though holding thereins, which…
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