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Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)

Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 40

An illustration from Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture, 1871, leaf 40
eet in height, and repre-sents Athena Promachus, upliftingher long spear and oval shield,in the attitude of a combatant, asif to guard the city which recog-nized her as its patron. The pointof her spear and the crest of herhelmet are visible, it is said, as faroff as Sunium, to the sailor… … Athena Promachus.

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