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THE STATUEA woman (P1. 24), headless and armless, wears a girt chiton, or chiton in the form of a peplos, and sits on a rectangular throne of rocks, terminating in a slightly uneven plinth. Her right arm was raised and extended, and her left arm rested on her left thigh, or just above it. Her left leg was drawn back, raising her left knee; her right leg was relaxed, as the lower limb and foot were extended. These are both missing from just below the knees. Traces of the right foot are visible on the plinth. The cloak or himation falls down the back in tight zigzag folds. It is also arranged over the raised right arm, around the shoulders from right to left (pinned with a brooch on the right shoulder?), down the left side and over the left leg to the plinth.The head and upper part of the neck were worked separately and inset. The statue may possibly have been knocked off its base at some time and damaged on the bottom. The bottom is uneven, as the view from the back bears out. The base has been reinforced with stonework and is now held by a pair of iron bands bolted at front and back (Pl. 25, a, b, e). The marble of statue and base is Pentelic, that of the latter being much coarser than the block of the sculpture. The remains of holes for clamps, two of which are visible in the front view, indicate that some of the smaller blocks of the base were set in new positions when the modern repairs took place. 1 James McCredie prepared the photographs shown here except as indicated below. Eugene Vanderpool has offered numerous helpful observations in the investigations of the statue. In the summer of 1935 Sterling Dow visited the island, took the photograph reproduced on Plate 25, a, and likewise pursued the saga of the " Raphti " on his return to Athens. His notes made at that time and his evaluation of the early travelers have proven invaluable as source for and corroboration of what appears here. The Photographic Library of the German Institute in Athens supplied the visual counterpart, shown here (P1. 25, e), to the testimonia of topographers working in Greece in the three decades from 1870 to 1900; Jose D6rig identified the travelers of 1893. Plate 26, a and b are also from German ...
