Plaster cast of a group of two women, usually identified with Dione and her daughter Aphrodite, although, according to some scholars they could also be the personifications of Gaia (Earth) and the Thalassa (Sea). The original sculptures are exhibited in the British Museum in London, after they were removed by Thomas Bruce, lord of Elgin, who between 1801 and 1804 when Greece was still under Ottoman rule forcibly detached from the pediment most of the sculptures that he found in their original places.

The two women are carved on the same piece of marble. To the left Dione, sitting on a rock, slightly turns her back towards the centre of the pediment where the scene of Athena's birth takes place. She is dressed in a chiton with short sleeves, secured over her arms with small buttons in relief. With her right arm she would embrace Aphrodite, who lies languidly on the same rock, resting against her mother’s lap. Aphrodite’s chiton clings onto her body forming rich folds, while its upper part slips down exposing her shoulder. A small drill on her right wrist would have served for the attachment of a bronze bracelet. The heads and hand and feet extremities of both figures are missing.

The two Parthenon pediments are adorned with about fifty oversized statues. The sculptures perfectly worked even on their unseen sides present scenes from the myths of the goddess Athena. The east pediment portrayed the miraculous birth of Athena from the head of her father Zeus. The scene takes place on Mt Olympus in the presence of the other gods who watch standing, sitting or half-reclining. The pediments' corners contained the chariots of Helios (Sun), which emerges from the sea, and Selene (Moon), which sinks in the ocean waves, indicating thus that the goddess' birth takes place at dawn. The centre of the scene was occupied by the statues of Zeus and Athena. Due to the misadventures suffered by the monument over the following centuries, many of the temple's sculptures have been destroyed; some survive in mutilated form, while others are represented only by small fragments.