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Identifier: antiquitiesofher00baia (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of Herculaneum
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764 Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825 Lettice, John, 1737-1832 Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780 Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810 Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795 Accademia ercolanese di archeologia (Naples, Italy)
Subjects: Art, Roman
Publisher: London : Printed for S. Leacroft ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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appinefs.For what remains, in filence to the godsWho read each thought, and chief to thee, 0 goddefs,.Safe I commit it. Now the painter feems to have reprefented her in this very aft of making herfilent vows. (14) Although Euripides makes no mention of Iphigenia*s being accompanied bywomen, it muft neverthelefs be fuppofed, that the lamp, and the facred inftrumentswhich he fpeaks of, were borne by others; fince (he herfelf muft carry the ftatueof the goddefs, which no one elfe might touch. Hence the painter efcorts her withtwo handmaids, who attend with the facred utenfils.(15) In v. 1222, &c. Iphigenia fpeaks as follows: Tug ctp SK^>ocivcvl(x,g rjSvi Ioo^octoov cpoo faxg,<( Kai S:-ocg Koo-fusg—creKag ts K<x.^.7T(moov , ra t #AA, ocraiS Upa9;^/iv tyuo ^svokti, xc&i Ssct Kcx.9cc^<rnx.I fee the jlrangers iffuing from the temple ;The flaming lamps ; the goddefs ornaments ;..Each inflrument I need, to purifyThe fir angers, and the fiatue.(16) Catalogue, n. 207. PLATE
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^.JBattnenruui sctUp. C 59 1 PLATE XIII. (■) TH E inftrument, which the female figure reprefented inthe picture before us (2), holds in her hands, howeverdifferent it may appear at firft fight, is certainly a /word (3),within its fcabbard (4) ; the end of it, which refembles a mujh-room, merits confideration (5). Now, from her grafping thefword, and from the circumftance of extreme defperation inwhich fhe is exhibited to our view, it is not difficult to difco- £1) Catalogue, n. 216. (2) Found in the fouterrains at Refina. (3) In the pi&ure, the fcabbard is difcernible enough, terminating exactly withthe crofs piece. (4) In the iilver fliield (which reprefents the generous action of Scipio Afric^nus,in reltoring the beautiful Carthaginian prifoner to her husband), publifhed by Sport.Mifc. Erud. Ant. Seel, iv. p. 152 ; and in other antiquities exhibited by Monifaucon,Ant. Exp/, torn. i. p. ii. pi. cxciv. ccx. and elfewhere; there are faulchions andfwords with their fcabbards, lik

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