istorical scene of sacrifice, but one in which the chieffigure is ideal—probably symbolical of the Senate of Rome. The CHAP. VIII ART 391 victim is a pregnant cow—fit offering to Pax Augusta—and thelandscape background, with the temple of the Penates on aneminence representing the Velia, is in late… … Fig. 59. Altar in the Museo delle Terme. Museo delle Terme (Fig. 59) with its graceful plane-branches isoften assigned to the period of Augustus, but might be a littlelater—but the figure-sculpture of the time is academic, and monu-ments are lacking which would help us in tracing the transitionto…
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