Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 170
other figures. FIGURE RELIEFS OTHER THAN SARCOPHAGI 145 the neighbouring streets:1 earthquakes had shifted the capital from its trueposition, and large fragments had fallen to the ground. A recent fire haspermitted two French scholars to. examine the base,2 only known from theseventeenth-century… … Fig. 83. Reliefs on the base of the obelisk of Theodosius, Constantinople.(Sebah and Joaillier.) it. This relief has suffered severe damage, only one Victory now remaining,And that headless. But the general sense of movement, and the skill withwhich the drapery is executed, show that the sculptors…
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