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A manual of Greek archaeology (1886)

Collignon, Maxime, 1849-1917, Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908 · London : Cassell Pub. Co. · leaf 200

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entaur carrying off a young boy, a woman in a Cen-taurs clutch, a Greek warrior armed with a sword,and, finally, under the lowest part of the coping, awaiting-woman and a nymph, who correspond to thefigures in the other corner. Nothing can be more skilful than the compositionof this pediment; the… … Fig1 58.—one of the lapith/e.Western Pediment of Olympia.) that of the eastern pediment, to which it bears a 188 GREEK ARCHEOLOGY. remarkable resemblance ; the same rapid and care-less work, the same inaccuracies, which are inexplic-able if the hand of Alcamenes sculptured these figures.How can it…

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