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Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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The couch draperies of the sculptures from a rock-tomb atMyra display patterns and figures of animals in colour only,without the slightest indication on the part of the sculptor:copies of these are also to be seen in the Lycian room of theBritish Museum. Professor Midler expressed the greatest interest in the disco-veries then recently made by Mr. Fellows in Lycia, and moreparticularly upon seeing the copies of the painted sculptures atMyra. Very curious observations have since been elicitedreo-ardino- other sculptures from Lycia; such as traces of bor-dering upon the garments of some of the most ancient statues;the remains of a bright blue background to the reliefs on theHarpy Tomb—traces of red in the hollow of the shields and
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Mu^eii»i.of Cla-is oKti/^ ARCHAIC BAS-RELIEF FOUND NEAR MARATHON,. AND NOWPRESERVED IN THE TRMPLE OE THESEUS AT ATHENS. POLYCHROMT OF SCULPTURE, 253 upon sandals, and patterns upon the chair of a sitting female.These latter are clearly visible from the non-corrosion of surfacewherever they extended, although all appearance of actual

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