Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 473
ke a mummy(cp. No. 47); on her head she wears a tall head-dress ofthe shape called KaAaflos or modius; a large veil covers herhead and shoulders ; from her hands, which stick out fromthe body, depend fillets which in the actual statue wereprobably made of metal so as to support the weight of… … This is the best preserved of the drums of the columnsfrom the second temple of Artemis at Ephesus. The firsttemple is said to have been burned down on the night ofthe birth of Alexander the Great; the second one wasbuilt soon afterwards. In both temples the lowest drumsof many of the columns were…
Classical antiquities
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