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A guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum (1899)

British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Smith, A. H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1860-1941 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 43

An illustration from A guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum, 1899, leaf 43 — ions on theAcropolis, is admirably perfect. The left hand Iaises a mass of theiair as if to coil it on the head. The head was broken off at anearly period, and built into a wall. It thus escaped the mutilationssuffered by the remainder of the slab. 30-34. Between the group of gods just described… … Fig. 9.—Slave witli seat. No. 30 is a maiden holding an uncertain object, perhaps a casket,in her left hand, and suppoiting on her head a seat covered with acushion, not unlike the seats on which the gods are, but smaller.She has a small pad on her head to make the weight easier to bear. The cut…

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