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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 753

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4 in. diameter. One finds among the ruins of Gortyna columns of red and white jasper,similar to the jasper of Cosme, in Languedoc; others like that of Campan,employed at Versailles. VOL. II. U 284 descrizione dell isola di candia, 1588. Quarry^ or Labyrinth. At the distance of one mile* from… … Plan of the Labyrinth of Gortyna.t the stone for building the city of Gortyna, and is entirely arti-ficial, as is evident from the wheel-ruts of the carriages used inconveying the stone through the quarry, and also from the There are but few statues, the Venetians having carried away all the…

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