Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 304
the seaward face of the mound, had sug-gested that Phylakopi might yield remains of wallpaintings comparable with those of Mykense andTiryns. The hope thus aroused at our first visitin April, 1896, was more than fulfilled two yearslater, when the fragments of the Flying Fish frieze,among the most… … 282 THE GREEK PAINTERS ART art, were discovered in a small room of the secondcity. . . . The composition at this left-hand end beganwith a fish swooping downwards to the right: thespace below and to the left of it is filled by a massof the conventional rocks that limit the wholepicture, above and…
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