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This series of sculptures come
from the Pathenon and were situated
in the triangular bit of the pediment.
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The sculputres show the progression
of day to night. Starting with Helios the sun
god rising out of the ocean.
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Dionysus the god of wine, Demeter, Persephone.
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The Sculptures were bought by
Lord Elgin in 1801, and there is a request
that they be returned to Greece.
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Hebe, Hestia and Aprodite.
and finally the horses of Selene,
the goddess of night.
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From here you can visit the Assyrian,Egyptian,
Attic, Indian,
and Chinese galleries
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