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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 432

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hich represents Alexander andDarius at the battle of Issus (or possibly Gaugamela), has been thought to bederived from an original not of mosaic but of painting. 2 The records of its discovery on the Aventine sliow that a central emhlema(removed in ancient times) was surrounded by a border of… … Egyptian landscape : mosaic found on the Aventine 416 AET CHAP. VIII The proportions of ornament and subject varied largely. OnPI. LXXIII is figured a mosaic found in a Koman villa atWoodchester, in Gloucestershire, about two miles from Stroud,towards the close of the eighteenth century. The villa…

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