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Title: Marbles and bronzes; fifty plates from selected subjects in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities Smith, A. H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1860-1941
Subjects: Sculpture, Greek Bronzes
Publisher: London : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. Nature, Virtue,Memory, Faith, and Wisdom stand in a group on the right. Therelief is inscribed with the name of the sculptor Archelaos,son of Apollonios of Priene. 3rd century B.C. V^A^XE:AA02;ATTOAAn.N10YYl_^SrrOrH2:ETtPIHNEY^ N 40, lA. AjO^cAaos AttoXAcdviou iiroLrjcre Ilpirjvevi;. Found at Bovillae. Purchased in 1819. Gat. of SculptureIII. No. 2191. 37. Eelief of a Maenad in frenzy, with a dagger and half of a slainkid. A Grmco-Eoman copy of a type of the younger Atticschool. From the Towneley Collection. Gat. of Sculpture, III.No. 2194. 38. Meleager. Heroic head, on a modern bust, of the type of theMeleager of the Vatican. A work of the 4th century b.c. Purchased in 1906 from the Carlisle Collection. 39. Aphrodite. Colossal bronze head in fine ideal style, of the 4thcentury B.C. Prom a statue. The head is probably ofAphrodite, though the identification cannot be certainlyestablished. Said to have been found at Satala, in Armenia Minor.Purchased in 1873. Cat. of Bronzes, No. 266.
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Pig. 4.—Hypnos (Plate 40). Hypnos or Sleep. Winged head from a statue. The type ofthe complete figure is that of a youth, half running, and halfhovering, with a poppy seed-vessel and a horn in his hands.The bronze is here shown attached to a cast of the body of thefigure, taken from a replica of the statue at Madrid. A work ofthe 4th century B.C., perhaps of the school of Praxiteles.From Perugia. Purchased in 1868. Gat. of Bronzes, No. 267. LIST OF PLATES. 42. 1.3, A bronze head with vivid portraitureAfrica. Tire eyes have been inlaid withthe substance remains in the sockets. PLATE. 41. Head ot an African,of a native of Northenamel, and part of3rd century B.C. (?). Found at Cyrene, in 1861, by Captain E. Murdoch Smith, R.E.,and Commander Porcher, E.N., on the original Hoor of theTemple of Apollo, and buried deep below a mosaic pavement oflater date. Cat. of Bronzes, No. 268. 44. 4.5.

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