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Marble fragment of a statue group from the West pediment of the Parthenon (West pediment B). The West pediment showed the mythical contest between Athena and Poseidon for supremacy over the land of Attica. The fragment preserves two coils of the body of a snake, carved separately from the snake-tail of figure B (usually identified as Kekrops) on the ground between B and C. The rest of the statue group (B and C) is in the Acropolis Museum, Athens. The back of the fragment has been roughly worked with a point but there is an area of anathyrosis smoothed with a claw chisel. It has been thought that this fragment does not represent the original attachment, but a later repair.
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