A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 136
for the prevalenceof the fashion. The type is represented in a statuette in the BronzeRoom (fig. 132) : the lady stands in an attitude of archaic severity,and holds up with her left hand the skirt of the soft Ionian chitonwhich is underneath the shawl. The outer garment was afterwards larger than… … Pig. 131—The Ionian Chiton. DRESS AND TOILET. 12; centuries B.C., and constantly appears in the most numerous pro-ducts of that period, the terracotta statuettes from Tanagra andelsewhere. Fig. 133 is from one of these, and others in the Terra-cotta Room show very clearly the beautiful and varied…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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