Bronze female head of heroic size. Photographer: Thompson, Stephen
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Close frontal view of the head: 'This beautiful head has doubtless formed part of a statue, which was probably about nine feet. The back of the head and neck have been torn away, and a blow has crushed the metal and one side of the forehead. The eyes, which have...
Bronze female statuette. Photographer: Thompson, Stephen
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of a small full-length statuette in bronze: '… The figure is treated in an archaic manner, but may be classed as an example of Hieratic art, in which the archaic style was retained at a later period. It was found in Rome [corrected in pencil to 'Veron...
Bronze tablet with Oscan inscription. Photographer: Thompson, Stephen
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of a bronze tablet with a long inscription in Oscan (i.e. from Campania): 'For the study of the Oscan language, which seems to have been one of the sources of Latin, this tablet is one of the most important documents yet discovered. It is known to archaeolo...
Bronze strigil with figure of Aphrodite. Photographer: Thompson, Stephen
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Bronze strigil, the handle formed by a figure of Aphrodite holding a strigil in her left hand. This is an exquisite specimen of Italian design, probably of the Macedonian period; the figure of Aphrodite is finely modelled, and adapted to the handle with that ver...