Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 172
of the church with its two lateraltowers is of a Syrian or Anatolian and not of an Italian type.1 The picturesquecharacter of many scenes, recalling Hellenistic genre reliefs of Alexandria, isalso an indication of an Eastern origin.2 Roman sculptors generally renouncedpicturesque backgrounds after… … Fig. 84. Fragment of an ambo of the fifth century. Salonika. (Hautes Etudes : G. Millet.) P. 145. east of the Mediterranean than in Italy. It may be noted that the picturesquetreatment with landscape backgrounds and genre accessories is characteristic ofthe early Indian reliefs of Bharhut (Barahat)…
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