A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus & Branchidæ, Volumen 2,Parte 2

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Página 475 - Btjxat, branching out from a principal chamber, may be seen in Hellenic tombs at Budrum, and at Pyli in the island of Cos. I have never, however, before met with the circular arrangement adopted here.
Página 387 - In the Homeric hymn to Demeter it is stated that the goddess, while wandering in search of her lost Persephone, assumed the form and garb of an old woman, and traversed the earth for many days without tasting food. Her appearance is likened to that of an aged nurse or housekeeper in a regal house.
Página 475 - The lower part of the chamber is, as I have already stated, built of blocks, and is pierced with openings, which radiate like embrasures from the centre of the chamber to the outside of the basement. There can be no doubt but these passages were intended as receptacles for bodies. Such an arrangement of cells, or flTjKcu, branching out from a principal chamber, may be seen in Hellenic tombs at Budrum, and at Pyli, in the island of Cos.
Página 543 - ... indicated, however slightly, without that accumulation and exaggeration of details so general in Assyrian and early Greek art." This subdued treatment of the anatomy contributes to the general breadth and repose for which these figures are so remarkable, and suggests the idea that they were executed by artists who had studied in...
Página 483 - ... of the case, has given to the countenance of the animal, and of which, for the reasons Pausanias assigns, the monument was to be the emblem rather than the record ; that mixture, namely, of fierceness and of humiliation, of rage, sorrow, and shame, which would agitate the breasts of proud Hellenic freemen, on being constrained, after a determined struggle on a field bathed with the blood of their best citizens, to yield up their independence to the overwhelming power of a foreign and semi-barbarous...
Página 366 - They also stated that the depth of the pit was, and is, about 70 feet, so that the total depth from the surface of the ground to the bottom of the boring would be 526J feet.
Página 598 - ... the symbol of Jupiter Labrandenus, and from which he inferred that it was the gate leading to Labranda, does not open towards lakli, but faces the east towards the mountain and Arabissar *. Upon the whole, therefore, I am inclined to think that Alabanda was at Arabissar, and Euromus at lakli; and that the vestiges of Labranda will hereafter be found on the mountain to the north-eastward of Mylasa.
Página 370 - Near these marbles I found in several places portions of thin sheets of lead, broken and doubled up. On being unrolled, these sheets proved to be tablets, inscribed with imprecations in the name of Demeter, Persephone, Pluto, and other Infernal Deities. In each inscription are specified the name of the person on whose head the imprecation is invoked, and the cause of offence which had drawn it forth.
Página 393 - The letters are beautifully cut; in many of them traces of red colour still remained on the first discovery of this marble.
Página 473 - ... its horizontal position at least the arch was clearly understood by the architect who designed these chambers, and was depended on as the essential principle of their construction. The chamber was formed of so many horizontal rings, each of which hangs over the one beneath the requisite protection...

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