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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 140

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s-relief. On this relief, the figure tothe left represents Apollo in his character of Musegetes, or leader ofthe Choruses of the Muses ; the one in front of him is Artemis(Diana Lucifera), bearing in her hand a long torch. On the otherrelief in the Museum, to which we have alluded, Apollo is met by… … ELGIN ROOM. 123 The character of the workmanship of these monuments indicates theimitative stylo of the period of Hadrian. Wos. 176, 376, 380, and 383 are all bas-reliefs, with figureswithin distylc (two-columned) temples. The first (No. 176) con-tains the remains of only one figure, probably that…

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