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Mycenae : a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns (1878)

Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 179

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piece reminds one of the Doric triglyphs. Tothe right and left of the palmettos we see the fragments ofother ornaments of a similar kind, and it seems that thewhole column has been decorated in this way. Above thepalmettos there is a row of denticles, and there has no doubtbeen a similar row below.… … No. 151. Piece of a quadrangular Column of Red Porphyry, (i M.) Size i: 4, about. broad, and 45 in. thick, carved with a beautiful spiral (seeNo. 152). Although, as Dr. Fr. Schlie thinks, the technicaltreatment of the low-relief of all these stelae may notbe vastly different from a whole series of…

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