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Scythians and Greeks : a survey of ancient history and archaeology on the north coast of the Euxine from the Danube to the Caucasus (1913)

Minns, Ellis H · Cambridge : University Press · leaf 379

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stone architecture, which had itself borrowed some fromwooden construction, but are applied with due regard to the material. Onlyrarely do we find an instance of a wooden coffin clearly imitating a stonesarcophagus in its turn designed after the pattern of a small temple. TheNiobid coffin (pp.… … !■ 11 CR. 1900, p. 103, f. 183. Wooden Coffin from Olbia in Odessa Museum. the Statues between them (e.g. the Nereid monument) and the railings putfrom column to column. Simple wooden treatment we have in that from Olbia,a little more elaborate in that from Jiiz Oba. In this already we have…

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