Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 177
f the other Eastern provincesof the empire, it became ancillary to architecture almost from the first.1 Itfound a place chiefly in friezes over niches and doorways, especially within thegable-like pediments many of which are preserved in a more or less fragmentarycondition. Free sculpture is very… … Fig. 87. Orpheus : limestone gable of the fourth century in the Cairo Museum. (Catalogue general: Koptische Kunst, No. 7287.) occasional extravagances of gesture and attitude which almost recall the fantasticcreations of the Hindu sculptor. There is also a coarse delight in representationof…
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