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THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES. 139 shoulder. Even the mantle of the reclining Ilissus seems to flap against his arm, but perhaps this requires " good will " to see. Putting all these indications together, it would seem that Poseidon's stroke was accompanied by a great blast from the sea, which this front faces, the effects of which carried the action over the whole composition. Fig. 142. — Part of a Wing : and Suggested Restoration, B. At the Museum there are several casts of fragments of wings, and I have tried whether I could gain any light as to their form. One is quite large, and retains the tenon by which it was attached to its figure. It is part of an expanded left wing. (Fig. 142.) As other fragments are also from another left wing, and as the large fragment is said not to fit on to the " Victory," it is clear that there