Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 217
benevolent expression, hiscopious hair encircled with a fillet, standing in the attitude of oneready to help, the himation taken about the left arm, round under-the breast, and drawn tight, and the staff enwreathed with a serpentin his right hand. Statues :— iEsculapius, Vatican.JEsculapius,… … HEAD OF CYBELE. Rhea is recognised by a crown of towers, the tympanum as asymbol of her enthusiastic worship, and her car yoked with lions. Hades.—Pluto. Hades, the ruler of the shadowy realm, is distinguished from hisbrothers, Zeus and Poseidon, by his heavier drapery, by his hairhanging down upon…
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