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 80
, and had templesto their honour at Athens. The nearer one has indeed been con-jectured to represent Mercury, and the other Heracles, on the groundthat the figures are apparently of dificrentlitres ; while the Dioscurion the other hand were twins. Tiieir dress too is also ditlereiit. The slabs… … ELGIN ROOM, 63 The next two figures on the same marble are almost certainlyDemeter (Ceres) and Triptolemus; the former bearing her usualsymbol, the torch. On the next slab, No. 19, are two groups, consisting of two seatedpersonages and one standing figure. With regard to the one to theright, there…
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