Page:Greek Buildings Represented by Fragments in the British Museum (1908).djvu/47

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DIANAS TEMPLE AT EPHESUS. 31 copy of that work. The pose is similar, and the draping is almost identical. The Eirene was wrought about 370 ; in turn it derived from the Maidens of the Erechtheum (c. 420). Further to the right is the lower part of a seated male figure in the attitude of one of the gods of the Parthenon frieze, and of a figure of ^sculapius from a coin of Epidaurus. This last is a Fig. 29.— Sketch of Column, Restored. small point, were it not that the coin represents the famous cult statue ; and a bas-relief of a similar figure (see Collignon) from the same place has open-work shoes, which are identical with those on our column. On the left of the Hermes are two superb figures almost complete, and a small fragment of a third which was like one of the magistrates of the Parthenon who lean on