171. Female figure (on the left).
Restored:—Head, right hand and part of sleeve; left forearm with part of sleeve and drapery. Cockerell, pl. 1.
172. Female figure (on the right).
Restored:—Head; lower edge of right sleeve; right hand and forearm; parts of drapery. Cockerell, pl. 1.
173. At each angle are casts of lions' heads, which in the absence of casts from the originals have been taken from the cornice of the archaic temple at Ephesus. The lion's head engraved by Cockerell (pl. 13, fig. 4), appears to be his restoration.
174. The angles are surmounted by Gryphons, which have been cast from a single original. The original has been considerably restored, especially the head.
Cockerell, pl. 13, fig, 4. The hind parts of one Gryphon were discovered by Chandler in 1765, but they were immediately broken and stolen. Chandler, Travels in Greece, p. 12.
The East Pediment of the Temple at Aegina.
Of the east pediment only five figures were found, sufficiently complete to be restored. The fragments leave no doubt that the composition was as a whole analogous to that of the west pediment, and that the subject was a battle for the body of a fallen warrior, fought in the presence of Athenè.
The clue to the subject represented is given by the figure of Heracles, and archaeologists are almost unanimous in thinking that the scene is a battle in the war which Telamon of Aegina, aided by Heracles, waged against Laomedon, King of Troy (cf. Apollodorus, ii., 6, 3, 4).