Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)
Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 119
. xii. et seq. ELGIN ROOM. 101 looking up to the Eastern front of the Temple of Theseus—appearsto represent a subject detached from the rest of the Frieze on thisfront; as it is separated from them by a group of Divinities, who areseated with their backs to the scene, and pay no regard to it.… … No. 136, Nos. 137, 138 represent three seated figures, which balancethree others at the opposite end of the Frieze, and without doubtrepresent the Olympian deities, Zeus, Hera, and Athene, seatedon the rocks at the summit of Mount Olympus. The figure tothe left of the spectator is Athene, that in…
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