Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 233
charming group trans-lated into relief from the well-known subject in the roundof Aphrodite at the Bath. It shows the crouching Aphro-dite playing with a swan ; one little winged Eros emptiesa jug of water over her back, and another is apparentlyemptying water out of a shell over the swan ; to… … LAVIA.N Al>TAi:L(itei-a7i FLAVIAN RELIEF 131 a rare distinction. It stands in the Lateran (Room IX.,No. 582), where it was unnoticed, except by a few loversof art, till Altmann detected in it a masterpiece of theFlavian style of decoration. * He comments on theamazing wealth of ornament (on the…
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