The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art (1860)
Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, Wood, J. E, Davies, Benjamin Rees · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 288
Mu^eii»i.of Cla-is oKti/^ ARCHAIC BAS-RELIEF FOUND NEAR MARATHON,. AND NOWPRESERVED IN THE TRMPLE OE THESEUS AT ATHENS. POLYCHROMT OF SCULPTURE, 253 upon sandals, and patterns upon the chair of a sitting female.These latter are clearly visible from the non-corrosion of surfacewherever they… … colour or gilding has vanished. The Lycian fondness for colourwas evident also in their inscriptions, where the engraved letterswere sometimes painted red and blue alternately (see FellowsLycia^ p. 146.) Two miles from Limyra I copied a curiousbilingual inscription, Greek and Phoenician—the Greek…
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