Note (return) — THE TEMPLE ON THE ACROPOLIS BURNT BY THE PERSIANS.

For the Hydra pediment, there exists a still closer parallel, in an archaic Corinthian amphora, published by Gerhard. 65 Athena appears here as a spectator, though she has no part in the pedimental group; but in every other point, in the drawing of the Hydra, of Herakles and Iolaos, the identity is almost complete. Athena seems to have been omitted, because the artist found it difficult to introduce another figure in the narrow space. Evidently the vase must have represented a type known to the sculptor and copied by him.