Sparta Museum, Tod, Marcus Niebuhr, 1878-1974, Wace, A. J. B. (Alan John Bayard), 1879-1957 · Oxford : Clarendon Press · leaf 113
melsewhere in Laconia, for thereare also quarries inParnon behindChrysapha. There are also in theMuseum one piece of alabaster,three pieces of a peculiar soapymarble, and a fragment of greengranite. Whether these are nativeor imported is not certain; butthe soapy marble is probablynative,… … Fig. I. The great majority of the sculptures in the Museum are thus of localmaterial, and therefore probably the work of local artists. ARCHAIC HERO RELIEFS. § 3. Archaic art is well represented. Its most important monuments arethe well-known and typical Spartan Hero reliefs. Reliefs belonging to…
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