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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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er so as to form one general composition. This opinion of Minerva rising from the head of Jupiter wasadopted by Brondsted, ( Voyages et Recherches en Grece^ fol.Paris, 1830), and more recently by Gerhard, (Athenens Gehurt^4to. Berlin, 1838), who only differs from M. De Quincy in theappropriation of some of the accessorial figures. He founds hisopinion, however, not on a single Etruscan mirror, but on thenumerous representations of this subject on painted vases, whichhe considers should remove all doubt as to the subject repre-sented in the pedunent of the Parthenon. In a subsequent pamphlet, (Drei Vorlesungen iiber Gyps-Abgllsse, 8vo. Berlin, 1844), M. Gerhard has given a restorationof the pediment, taking as his basis a vase of remarkable beautyand importance (formerly belonging to M. Beugnot, but now inthe British Museum),() which vase has also been publishedand explamed by MM.Lenormant and De Witte, (Elite des Mo-numens Ceramographiques)^ and by Forchhammer, (Die Geburtder Athene).
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THE BIRTH OF MINERVA, AS REPRESENTED ON THE BEUGNOT VASE. As considerable use has been made of this vase in the accom-panying restoration, it may be useful to describe the differentfigures, as explained by these wiiters. In the centre we beholdJupiter (Zeus) and Minerva (Athena). On their right areVulcan (Hephaestus), Neptune (Poseidon), and Bacchus 1 No. 741 *. See Vase-Catal. Brit. Mus. EASTERN PEDIMENT OF THE PARTIiENON. 359 (Dionysus) : on their left Eileithyia and Diana (Artemis). Allthese have their names written in characters running towardsthe centre. Between Poseidon and Dionysus are two figures,which have been taken for Nike (Victory) and Apollo, or Irisand Theseus. The outside figures have been described by Ger-hard as a Demos and Nereus; by the British Museum Vase-Editors as a Demos and Hades; by Forchhammer as Olympusand Thessalus; and by Lenormant and De Witte, as Amphic-tryon or Icarius, and Cecrops. This vase not only puts us in possession of several parti-culars relat

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