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Title: Greek bronzes
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904
Subjects: Bronzes, Greek
Publisher: London : Seeley and Co. New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fig. 39.—Gaulish Statuette of Mars. British Museum. GREEK BRONZES 97 of Ogmios. Astonished at so singular a conception, Lucian in-quired of an educated Gaul what might be the meaning of the picture,
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Fig. 40.—Gaulish Heracles. Bronze Statuette found at Vienne in France.and was told it was a representation of the power of eloquence to draw men. But Lucians picture of Ogmios is hardly more curious than a bronze G 98 GREEK BRONZES statuette found some years ago at Vlenne in France (Fig. 40). It is a figure ofHeracles of a good classical type, though with the usual differences of style,which, as I said before, are like the differences between a good translationand an original. What is startling is the ring of barrel-shaped objectswhich appears like a nimbus above the head of the figure. These curiousobjects are supported on a thin rod which rises behind the statuette. Themeaning of them is still far from clear, notwithstanding the amount ofattention bestowed on them by scholars versed in Celtic literature. It ismuch to be regretted that this is so, because these objects are certainlysymbols of some kind which must have conveyed a definite meaning tothe ancient Gauls. They cannot be

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