APC Image: AK 0949Fragment of draped torso. The waist of a female figure clad in a thin transparent chiton, girt just beneath by a small round cord, and a himation which descends behind from the direction of the left shoulder and is gathered in front below the waist in heavy parallel folds. Carpenter ascribes it to the figure of Lachesis from the east pediment of the Parthenon.
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Object Description:   Fragment of draped torso. The waist of a female figure clad in a thin transparent chiton, girt just beneath by a small round cord, and a himation which descends behind from the direction of the left shoulder and is gathered in front below the waist in heavy parallel folds. Carpenter ascribes it to the figure of Lachesis from the east pediment of the Parthenon.
Negative Number:   AK 0949
Museum:   Acropolis Museum
Museum Inventory Number:   930
Category:   Sculpture
Subcategory:   Torso
Monument:   Parthenon
Site:   Acropolis
City:   Athens
Region:   Attica
Country:   Greece
Format:   Glass-plate
Dimensions:   18 X 24
Bibliography:   Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 55, fig. 15.
Repository:   ASCSA ARCHIVES
Collection Title:   Archaeological Photographic Collection
Series:   AK
Image Width:   2129
Image Height:   2829