Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: Being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art Preserved There |
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altar Amazon ancient animals Apollo appears arranged artists Athenian Athens bas-relief bearing belonged body bronze bust called Carrey's drawing casts cella Centaur character chariot collection colour columns combat contains contest decorated Deities described Dionysus Divinities drapery Dynasty Eastern Egypt Egyptian Elgin Room executed feet female figure fragments Frieze front Goddess Greek ground hair head helmet Heracles Hieroglyphics holding horses Hygieia inscribed inscription Karnak King Lapith left hand legs lion Lycian male figure Metopes monument mummy Museum Marbles Museum possesses naked Nephthys originally ornament Osiris painted Parthenon pediment period Persian PHEIDIAS placed portion Poseidon Praxiteles preserved probably Rameses Rameses II relief remains remarkable repre representation represented resemblance right hand Roman sarcophagus satyr scene sculptures seated sepulchral shield shoulders side Sir Charles Fellows slab specimens standing statuary statue stone style supposed tablet Temple Theseus tomb vases Victory walls warrior workmanship Xanthus youthful Zeus