History of ancient pottery, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1873)
Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London, J. Murray · leaf 491
bly continued to supply Eome with statues till Southern Italy submitted to her arms. The popular legends invested these fictile statues with a halo of superstition. The horses in the quadriga on the apex of the temple . of Jupiter Capitoliniis were reported to have swollen instead of contracting in… … either made of other mate- Xo. Etruscan Female Bust. Vulci. rials, or in separate pieces, like the acrolithic statues of Greece. Some of these may have been cliaristeria, or thank-offerings, like those at Athens. No bas-reliefs like those employed by the Romans to decorate the walls of edifices…
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