Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 226
allround the edge, and allowing it to rise in a curved form towards thecentral parts, so that there was no salient point beyond the originalplane. The degree of elevation given to this sunk relief is verydifferent in various specimens: in some it is scarcely perceptible,while in others the central… … EGYPTIAN ALTO-RILIEVO. example of alto-rilievo will be found in a stele, or sculptured monu-ment, in the British Museum, which represents the monarch, Thot-mes III., supported by the god Muntu, and the goddess Athor. Etruscan.—The earliest known examples of Etruscan bas-reliefs arethe cippi, or…
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