A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 52
ossus.have been a fabulous story, by the discovery of the foundationstones for the statue. The ancient Egyptian cubit (not the Eoyalcubit) was, according to Mr. Sharpe, 177212 inches, so that * Two of these were made of the full size of the ancient statues, the headof one having been moulded by Mr.… … 30 COLOSSAL STATUES. it would be about 115 feet high. The^Athene Promaclws, abronze figure by Pheidias, placed on the Acropolis, to be seen atsea beyond the Piraeeus, was betwcBn 50and 60 feeirhigh. Hisstatue of Athene within the Parthenon, a chryselephantinestatue, was 47 feet high. His statue of…
Sculpture, Ancient
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