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Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado (1887)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Oxford : Clarendon press · leaf 89

An illustration from Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado, 1887, leaf 89
ll within, though that was probably not theintention of the sculptor. On the platform in front of the temple has stoodfor centuries one of the best known and most inter-esting relics of Boman Aspalathus, a magnificentsarcophagus sculptured with the story of Meleagerand the hunting of the Calydonian… … Fig. 36. 1882 and 1884; but alas! in 1885 it was gone, andwe afterwards came upon it in the dull limbo of themuseum, serving as a support to other fragments of 70 Spalato: the Baptistery. [Ch. XI. antiquity. In its new place few will ever see it, andno one will ever enjoy it as every Spalatine high…

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