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The palaces of Crete and their builders (1907)

Mosso, A. (Angelo), 1846-1910 · London, Unwin · leaf 106

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trade in monuments. They had emperors wearing the cuirass,consuls in the toga, philosophers, orators, and poets with the tecaand roll of writing at the foot. They were quite finished exceptthe head, and that was done as soon as the order was given. Thefour statues of Fig. 45, photographed under the… … 6 THE RUINS OF GORTYNA 103 in the warehouse. It seems like the destruction of marbles whenthe Roman Senate ordered the damnatio memorue in the timeof Nero and Domitian, when the statues of the emperors and theirofficials were overturned and decapitated. GoRTYNA, June I, 1906. To-day I have seen a…

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