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Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)

Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 327

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peian house. It consists of a square basis, onwhich was erected a small shrine, with its roof (now lost)supported against the walls and on a single pillar at theouter corner of the basis. The figures of the Lares, pouringwine from a horn (rhyton) into a vessel (sitvla), are paintedon the inner… … A three-sided altar, 1 metre high, sacred to Apollo.The side here shown represents a priest of Apollo wearinga wreath and tunic leaving his right arm free for action.He is sprinkling incense on a flaming altar which isdecorated with garlands; on either side of him is a laurel(the sacred tree of…

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