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Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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anthian marbles. In a coin of Mostene, struck by L. Verus, we see the city,with her turreted crown, represented as an Amazon on horse-back :f the motion represented in which may be intended todesio;nate the mio-ration of the Amazons from Thermodon toPhrygia, J^olia, Ionia, Lydia, &c., in which countries severalcities were founded by them. Having thus endeavoured to identify the statues of the peri-style with the several Greek cities which sent their contingentforces to the army of Harpagus, we have now to examine * An Aiu-eus of Galba. Brit. Mus. t Amazons riding on horseback, says Oderici, are seen on other Greek coins; but Amazons riding with a turreted head I do not remember to have seen, excepton the coins of those cities wliieh were founded by Amazons, and a turreted lieadis always an emblem of the city.—Numismata Grceca, p. 26. 150 ON THE SCULPTURES OF THE whether the sculpture in the pediment has any connexion withthe subject represented in the lower part of the monument.
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In the centre of the eastern pediment we see a male and femalefigure sitting opposite to each other, with an attendant standingon each side of them. The difference in size between theprincipal figures and their attendants is a sufficient evidence oftheir representing divinities. This custom of representing thegods of colossal size was borrowed by the Greeks from Egypt,in order to give a more supernatural and elevated idea of thenature of the gods. Thus, in the eighteenth book of the Iliad^ v. 516, we havethe following description of the shield of Achilles. In onecompartment of the shield is represented a city at Avar, withMars and Minerva leading out the youths to battle:— They marched, by Pallas and by Mars made bold,Gold were the gods, their radiant garments gold,And gold their armour, these the squadrons ledAugust, divine, superior by the head. The words are more expressive in the original— 0\ S icrav, ^px^ 8 apa a(pivApr)s koI UaWas A^ir/vrj,ApcPco ;^ptitrfito, ;Y/iCfo Se (Ifi

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