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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 132

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oubtful to which of two or more divisions some monuments I 114 GREEK ANTIQUITIES. ought strictly to belong. Thus, in the case of ex votos, which, wheninscribed bas-reliefs, may be classed either as votive offerings or asinscribed tablets, we have generally preferred the former arrange-ment, as more… … No. 111. Engr. Museum Marbles, Part ix. pi. i. p. 1. ELGIN ROOM. 115 foot. It was originally inserted in a niche or grotto of the rock onthe South side of the Acro|)olis, above the great Dionysiac theatre,and surmounted an edifice termed the Choragic Monument of Thra-syllus, which was constructed…

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