A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 63
the elaborate saddle-cloth, and the wings of the Egyptianscarabaens and hawk engraved on the bulls back. The date ofthese bronzes is the late sixth or early fifth century B.C. TheGreeks must have become acquainted with the worship of Apisin the seventh century B.C., when they served King… … Fig. 41.—Bronze Votive Bull (No. 128). Ht. 4 in. him Epaphos. The bull dedicated by Sokydes was found in theNile Delta, that dedicated by Theodoros at Athens. The two bronze wheels in Case 103 each bear a votive inscriptionThe earlier (No. 130), said to have been found near Argos, wasperhaps an…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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