Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 386
ortrait heads are Roman works of Imperial times; THE LAND OF NERO 341 statues and bas-reliefs are but reproductions of lostGreek originals, the existence of which would otherwisehave been known only from the descriptions of Plinyand Pausanias. Their discovery is always welcome, Ije-cause, no matter… … The great ditch excavated by the Rutuli for the defence of Ardea on the land side should we know, for instance, about the Apoxyomenosof Lysippus were it not for the accidental finding of amarble copy in the year 1849 near the church of SantaCecilia in Trastevere ? The same considerations applyto…
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