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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 215

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ulders. T. 78 is a head, formerly in the villa of Pope Sixtus V. called the Villa Montalto, at Rome, covered with thePhrygian or pyramidal hood, and the lower part of the face and neck clothed with drapery. The expression of the face is that of youthfulness, possibly to denote the youthful beauty… … 198 TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. posed to refer to the mystical ceremonies of his festival, which appearto have been of Syrian origin. It is not easy to separate the legends which refer to the last-men-tioned representation from those which attach to Atys, whose prc-swmcd bust we shall now describe.…

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