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The Cyrene Marbles in the British Museum: a priest, 1861. Creator: Unknown.

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The Cyrene Marbles in the British Museum: a priest, 1861. Statue from Cyrene, an ancient Greek and later Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya. 'The small figure of a priest is of the very latest period; but it has its value as showing us, however faintly, something of the manners of that time; for the attitude and expression are too characteristic not to raise a clear idea of the man who sat for this representation of his class...[One of]...a selection of antiquities collected by Mr. Werry, her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Ben-Ghazee, a town which represents the ancient Hesperides, afterwards Berenice, the westernmost of the five cities of the Cyrenaïca'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23B24_381

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

6,0Mo (386,8Ko) / 8,7cm x 17,2cm / 1029 x 2031 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Italy people man men religious stone arts country Rome religion statue statues sculpture art guy British museum color Libya marble archaeology Greece Roman location British Museum century archaeological Britain newspapers press print priest concept mythology archeology B&W full length full-length engraved engraving Colour drapery 19th century black & white black and white B W Ancient Greece white and black Greek mythology Ancient Greek Ancient Roman Ancient Rome nineteenth century The Print Collector Cyrene Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper object Unknown 19th-century Cyrene Marbles