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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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e breast is distinctly marked beneath the cegis, but nofolds are visible on this surface. A large boss directly in front,and now perfectly smooth, was most probably adorned witha painted head of the Gorgon Medusa, Avhilst the isgis itselfwas coloured like scales, as we see on the painted vases. Thehair falls in plaits over the shoulders, and in a great mass at STATUE OF MINERVA AT ATHENS. 191 the back. A similar fashion is to be seen in many other Pal-ladian figures, also preserved on the Acropolis. It is worthy of observation, that the texture of the remainingdrapery is fine ribbed, and in wavy lines, such as are frequentlyrepresented on early vases, and archaic sculpture. From itslightness and peculiar gauzy quality, it is only to be seen usedas an under garment; and where the figure wearing it is seated,a mantle is invariably thrown over the knees. In the paintedSosias cup, in the bas-relief from the Villa Albani, and in theHarpy monument from Xanthus, this is conspicuously shown.*
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BAS-BELIEF ON ONE OF THE SIDES OF THE HARPY TOMB, IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Here, however, it is the only garment to the limbs, and fromthe very want of an outer covering a serviceable argument maybe derived. Miiller regarded this as a repetition of the typeof the old Minerva Pohas, chiefly judging by the art-charac-teristics about it, and from the position in which it was found.The statue was discovered, it is believed, at the Aglaurium.fThis locality is situated immediately at the foot of the Acropolis,under the Temple of Minerva Polias (Scholl, p. 24). Pausa-nias says that her most sacred statue was a common offering ofthe demi, before they were collected into the city; it waspreserved in the Acropolis, and reported to have fallen from * Zoega, Bassi rilievi di Roma, Tav. xli.; Miiller Benhnaler, Tav. xlv.f A view of this celebrated grotto, taken by the writer in 1840, will appear inthe next number of the Life and Travels of St Paul, by Rev. J. S. How son, M.A. 192 STATUE OF mNERVA AT

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