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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 438

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but these are of less artistic importancethan a narrow strip which runs below the panels and is decoratedeither with Psyches gathering flowers or with Erotes engaged inwork or play. In one section we find them busy with the manu-facture and sale of olive-oil, in another they are employed as 1 The… … Pompeian wall-painting (ornate style). 408 AKT chap, vin coiners.1 Beneath the pilasters this frieze is interrupted by narrowsections decorated partly in the same style, partly with mytho-logical paintings, small in size and sketchy in execution, butextraordinarily effective in conveying an…

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