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 51
lpture. 357, 358. Two fragments of moulding. [Near the dour to thePhigaleian Room.] These fragments, though no colour remains, 38 Elgin Boom. show that they Avere once decorated with maeander patterns, Ijy thetraces left on account of the unequal exposure to the weather of thepainted and unpainted… … Fv^. 13.—Disposition of East Frieze of Tlieseion. (P.om Baumeister.) CASTS FROM THE THESEION. On the East wall are casts from sculptures still decorating theso-called temple of Theseus at Athens, a building thought to havebeen erected about twenty years earlier than the Parthenon (i.e.about 465…
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