Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 206
he Symmachi and Nicomachi reproduced not without successthe motive of an Attic sepulchral relief (p. 190). With the decay anddisappearance of monumental sculpture the influence of the greater glypticart naturally ceased; and though, as on one of the caskets with mytho-logical subjects, we find… … Fig. 108. Side of a wooden casket with engraved bone panels, about the fifth century,in the Cairo Museum. {Catalogue general: Koptisclie Kunst, No. 7065.) P. 195. materials may be briefly noted, though here, too, the results were not ofprimary importance. The ivory carver and the silversmith seem…
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