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Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum, discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius : with some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients : and a short description of the antiquities in the neighbourhood of Naples (1754)

Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726-1786, Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790 · London : Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham ... · leaf 224

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-x\. pinas tomb, and pafled be-low the fort of Bai^e^ we were land-ed at the foot of a temple, the de-dication of which is ftill a fubjed ofdifpute ; and as it is a thing reallyvery obfcure, I fhall adhere to theopinion of the country; although inthis refpedi-, the vulgar efpecially isoften apt to… … H^cUicarcL Fee > C ^4-3 1 with grouped pilafttrs, placed up-on high pedeflals, which are almoftintirely funk in the marfhy groundwhere the edifice is built. As to thechapiters, they are fo totally ruined bytime, that not the leaft veftige ofthem remains. The gate is of a fe-micircular arch, but…

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