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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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which was to be carried off (21). And if the colouring, which appears to be that of flefli rather than of ftone, ftiouldraife any doubt, we may anfwer: that the poet having an eye to the words of Pau-fanias, i. 23. (who calls this Jlatue ap%aiov fyuvov) and to the image being takenand carried on board by Iphigenia alone (Euripides, Ipbig. in Taur. v. 1157, &c.)»mod probably defigned to reprefent it of wood, painted from nature, thus alludingat the fame time to its antiquity ; fince it is well known that the moll ancient imageswere of wood (Paufanias, viii. 16. Pliny, xxxiv. 7.), and ufed to be painted (Plu-tarch in Rom.) like our modern wooden, or pafte-board ftatues. In Paufanias, iii.16. we read of aprieftefs of the Leucippides, who made for one of the two ftatuesa new face inftead of the old one. (21) Of the various traditions related by Paufanias, Servius, and Hyginus, aboutthe ftatue of Diana Taurica, mention flaall be made in the obfervations upon thefollowing plate. PLATE
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( 55 ) PLATE XII. W IF the picture preceding be a reprefentation of Oreftes dif-covered by his fifter, the piece now before us will be acontinuation of it (2), and the explanation of one will con-duce to the illuftration of the other. Euripides, who in hisIphigenia in Tauris (3) has furnifhed us with the fubjecl: of (1) Catalogue, n. 253. (2) Although not found in the fame place, nor at the fame time. (3) Strabo, xii. pag. 537, fays there were fome who related, that the fcene ofthefe adventures ©f Orejles and Iphigenia was the city of Cajlabala, fituated on thefkirts of Mount Taurus in Cappadocia : but this is nothing but a blunder, in takingthe Mount Taurus for the city of Tauris. Between the Pontus Euxinus and thePa/us Maeotis there is a peninfula, called by the Grecians Cherfonefus Tauricus, be-caufe it was inhabited by a people of Scythia called Tauri; who having the barba-rous cuftom of facrificing to the goddefs Diana all the Grangers who by ill fortunelanded there, got that pl

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