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 92
crown is held over her head by Libya. The elegiac quatrainbeneath records the dedication of the relief by one Karpos.According to the legend told by Pindar (Piitli. ix., 26), Cyrene wasa Thessalian maiden. Apollo saw her slaying a lion in thevalleys of Pelion, Avhile guarding her fathers flocks. He… … Fig. 25.—Aphrodite. lion, and it is proliably in connexion with this later legend thatLibya is introduced crowning Cyrene in the relief. 50*. The small relief in this bay, with two dogs attacking aboar, is one of the Aery few sculptures which belonged to Sir HansSloane, and thus formed the nucleus…
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