History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 349
he expresses himself as if, like us, he thought that the body had been laid out in its regal dress ; at other times he apparently conceives the funerals of his heroes as having been celebrated after the manner recorded in the Epic. In trying to get out of the difficulty in which he found himself,… … ^Fig. 108. — Gold pectoral, o m. 525 broad, by o ni. 365 liigli* been lit immediately over the bed of pebbles supporting the corpses, which latter, acting as a sort of ventilator, allowed the air to penetrate between the single units and quickened the flame. Granting that the corpses were disposed…
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