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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 404

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nts the draped figure of a maiden holding a platein her left hand and looking intently at its contents.She has been named the Maiden of Mvsterv becausearchaeologists are as ignorant to-day of her origin,authorship, name, and place in the history of Greekart as they were thirty years ago, when she… … THE MYSTERIOTS OREEK MAIDEX FROM ANTIUM THE LAND OF NERO 361 controversy, and I have left Antiuin more fascinatedthan ever by thebella mcognita, but no nearer to theknowledge of the truth. She is not a mystery, Init atangle of mysteries. Must we consider her lovely facea ]>ortrait from nature,…

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