The museum of classical antiquities - being a series of essays on ancient art (1860) (14756470096)

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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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colour or gilding has vanished. The Lycian fondness for colourwas evident also in their inscriptions, where the engraved letterswere sometimes painted red and blue alternately (see FellowsLycia^ p. 146.) Two miles from Limyra I copied a curiousbilingual inscription, Greek and Phoenician—the Greek letterswere painted red, and the others blue.* ATFr^TA2iATO/n-oMT/////K/<zy/MYTnkAi Toiz b rro/ oiz Within one of the galleries attached to the ancient theatreat Myra I found two Greek inscriptions, the letters of whichhad been filled in with red. ^c^^.clovv: \hh/\ovoto * Published in the Lycia, plate xxxvi. No. 1.NO. III. T 254 POLYCHROMY OF SCULPTURE. In 1844, during the government expedition to Lycia, Icopied some rock sculptures at Antiphellus, on which the blue,vermillion-red, and bright crimson colours Avere visible.* The accompanjdng Plate represents a stele monument atAthens, found in a tumulus at A^elanidisa, near Marathon. Ithas been published by M. Le Bas, in an article of the