Plaster cast of part of a seated female figure usually identified as Kreousa. The original sculpture is exhibited in the British Museum in London, after it was 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 he found in their original places.

Only the right thigh of the woman has been preserved from the sculpture. Kreousa was sitting sideways on a rock, facing towards the pediment’s centre where the scene of the dispute between Athena and Poseidon takes place.

To this same composition belongs an original sculpture of a young boy’s torso (ΕΑΜ 5678) that has been attributed to Kreousa’s son Ion. The boy would have been sitting on his mother’s left thigh.

The two Parthenon pediments are adorned with about fifty oversized statues. The sculptures, perfectly worked even on their unseen, rear sides, present scenes from the myths of the goddess Athena.

The west pediment of the Parthenon portrays the dispute between Athena and Poseidon regarding who would become the divine protector of Athens. The contest was held on the Acropolis in the presence of the city’s mythical kings Kekrops and Erechtheus and other local heroes, who as judges decided the outcome in favour of Athena, preferring her gift, the olive tree, to the salty water offered by Poseidon. The centre of the scene is occupied by the two protagonists and their chariots whereas the pediments' corners contain the personifications of two rivers that flowed in ancient Athens, Ilissos and Kephissos. Due to the misadventures suffered by the monument over the following centuries many sculptures have been lost, some survive in mutilated form whereas others are represented only in small fragments.