Wheler saw some large stones carved with wheat-ears and bundles of poppy. Near it is the bust of a colossal statue of excellent workmanship, maimed, and the face disfigured ; the breadth at the shoulders, as measured by Pococke, five feet and a half;... Travels in Asia Minor and Greece - Σελίδα 236των Richard Chandler - 1825Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1803 - 40 σελίδες
...remains, it is likely, of the Temples of Diana Propylea, and of Neptune; and of the Propyleum of Gateway, Wheler saw some large stones carved with Wheat-Ears and bundles of Poppy. Near it is a Bust of a colossal Statue of excellent ivorkman* ship, maimed and the face disfigured : the breadth... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1809 - 114 σελίδες
...remains, it is likely, of the Temples of Diana Propylea and of Neptune, and of the Propyle'um or gateway. Wheler saw some large stones carved with wheat-ears...two feet deep. It probably represented Proserpine 6 A tradi( d ) Travels in Greece, by Richard Chandler, DD p. 189, &c. ( e ) No reason is given for... | |
| 1823 - 858 σελίδες
...temples of Diana Propylea and of Neptune, and of the Propyleum or gateway. Wheler saw some large stone« carved with wheat-ears and bundles of poppy. Near...disfigured ; the breadth at the shoulders, as measured by Poc»cke, five feet and a half -, and the basket on the head above two feet deep. It probably represented... | |
| Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1828 - 428 σελίδες
...remains probably of the Temples of Diana Propylcea, and of Neptune, and of the Propylceum, or Gateway. Wheler saw some large stones carved with wheat-ears...excellent workmanship, maimed, and the face disfigured, now, I believe, in the University Library of Cambridge. The breadth of the shoulders, as measured by... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1828 - 592 σελίδες
...remains, it is likely, of the Temples of Diana Propylea, and of Neptune, and of the Propyleum or gateway. Wheler saw some large stones carved with wheat-ears and bundles of poppy. Near it is a bust of a colossal statue of excellent workmanship, maimed, * ' Voyage de Grece et du Levant,' &c.... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 σελίδες
...Neptune, and of the Propyleum or gateway. Wheeler saw »•nie large stones carved with wheat ears and bundles of poppy. Near it is the bust of a colossal...head above two feet deep. It probably represented 1'roserpine. In the heap are two or three inscribed pedestals ; and on one are a couple of torches,... | |
| Elizabeth Pepper, John Wilcock - 2000 - 312 σελίδες
...it lyeth all in a confused heap together." Half a century later (in 1716) Richard Chandler observed "the bust of a colossal statue of excellent workmanship maimed and the face disfigured. . . A tradition prevails that if the broken statue be removed the fertility of the land will cease."... | |
| 1828 - 598 σελίδες
...remains, it is likely, of the Temples of Diana Propylea, and of Neptune, and of the Propyleum or gateway. Wheler saw some large stones carved with wheat-ears and bundles of poppy. Near it is a bust of a colossal statue of excellent workmanship, maimed, • ' Voyage de Grece et du Levant,'... | |
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