Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 152
arecopies of earlier work, and executed in the tenth century,1 there is nocertainty that these details are inconsistent with fourth-century fashions, and itseems more reasonable to assign them to the same date as the Cairo bust. The … Sfe^---C Fig. 74. Porphyry group, exterior of S. Marco, Venice. (Alinari.) flat caps, which also occur on ivories and sarcophagi of the fourth century, areprobably military. All these examples of the sculptors art in porphyry wereprobably produced in Egypt, the country where the stone is obtained.…
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