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A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)

Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 268

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e. Restorations.—Half the fore-arm and hand, toes of both feet.Fig. 134.—The Hermes of the but the hand with the apples isVatican. antique. Guglielmo della Porta supplied the legs when it was discovered, but the present legsare antique. Hermes and Infant Dionysos, by Praxiteles. {See Fig. 96.)… … Fig. 135.—Coin.Showing Jason. that it was Jason, who was a farmer on the hanks of theriver Anaurus, and having forded the riverhe tied on one sandal and forgot theother, hurrying to assist King Pehas ina sacrifice. The oracle had warned Pelias tobeware of a man with one shoe, and it wasthis Jason…

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