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... bronze that adorned the Gym- nasium of Zeuxippus in the 6th century , the choicest selections from the plunder of the Hellenic world , we recognise at the first glance the originals of many of the representations only preserved to our ...
... bronze that adorned the Gym- nasium of Zeuxippus in the 6th century , the choicest selections from the plunder of the Hellenic world , we recognise at the first glance the originals of many of the representations only preserved to our ...
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... bronze group by the early statuary Canachus , which from its singularity was accounted the chief ornament of the Didymeon at Athens : an Apollo thus holding a stag , the hind feet of which were so ingeniously contrived by means of ...
... bronze group by the early statuary Canachus , which from its singularity was accounted the chief ornament of the Didymeon at Athens : an Apollo thus holding a stag , the hind feet of which were so ingeniously contrived by means of ...
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... bronze or marble . It may even be said that gems in their eyes were of greater value by reason of the extreme smallness of the stones , and a hardness that defied the steel tool , and submitted to nothing but the power of the diamond ...
... bronze or marble . It may even be said that gems in their eyes were of greater value by reason of the extreme smallness of the stones , and a hardness that defied the steel tool , and submitted to nothing but the power of the diamond ...
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... Bronze stamps .. .. 340 Subjects of intagli .. 342 Casts in plaster and wax .. 352 389 .. Magic rings Medical virtues of gems Magical sigilla .. Signs of the zodiac 418 .. Prophylactic rings .. 433 Planetary rings .. 437 Gimmels ...
... Bronze stamps .. .. 340 Subjects of intagli .. 342 Casts in plaster and wax .. 352 389 .. Magic rings Medical virtues of gems Magical sigilla .. Signs of the zodiac 418 .. Prophylactic rings .. 433 Planetary rings .. 437 Gimmels ...
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... bronze her nurse's fall proclaim ; How conquered Ilium on that fatal day Lost and betrayed had sunk , the Argives ' prey . " Deeply cut on a very fine Sard . 3. ATREUS ARMED WITH THE HARPE OF PERSEUS ( the founder of Mycenae ) , about ...
... bronze her nurse's fall proclaim ; How conquered Ilium on that fatal day Lost and betrayed had sunk , the Argives ' prey . " Deeply cut on a very fine Sard . 3. ATREUS ARMED WITH THE HARPE OF PERSEUS ( the founder of Mycenae ) , about ...
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