Itinerarium curiosum (centuria I) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great BritainStukeley, William
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Itinerarium curiosum (centuria I) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain
Stukeley, William
Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Young Hercules with the serpents. Hercules, old, with his club. The
dwarf of Augustus.
III. BASSO RELIEVO’S. The Story of Niobe, _alto relievo_, very ancient:
there are twenty figures; the marble is 2400 weight; seems to have been
a pannel in some temple of Apollo, or Diana. The story of Meleager,
being the side of a _sarcophagus_, seventeen figures, _mezzo relievo_,
1500 weight, of an admirable taste. Curtius on horseback, leaping into
the gaping cavern, of most excellent work. M. Aurelius and Faustina,
_adversa capita_, fine work. Caracalla, a three-quarters _relievo_.
The three Graces. One on horseback, cutting at a soldier defending
himself under the horse. The ancient manner of eating, Jupiter served
by Hebe: he is accumbent. A frize of a sea-triumph, small figures.
Cleopatra with the asps in a covered vase, _alto relievo_. Part of a
frize from a temple of Neptune, Naiades and Tritons. A _basso_ from a
temple of Bacchus, the _thyrsus_, &c. A _basso relievo_ on porphyry
of Roemitalces king of Thrace. A child stealing fruit from the altar
through a mask.
IV. MISCELLANIES. A nuptial vase, representing the ceremonies of
marriage. Ara Hammonis, a cube of white marble, on front the symbol of
Jupiter Hammon on a circular piece of the old Theban marble. Two black
porphyry pillars brought from Rome by the earl of Arundel. The column
of Egyptian granite, weighing near 7000 weight, from the ruins of the
temple of Venus genetrix, built by Julius Cæsar: this my lord has set
up in the front of the house. A very ancient altar of Bacchus, adorned
with _basso relievo’s_. An altar table of red Egyptian granite, large,
and four or five inches thick. An antique pavement, four sorts of
marble, of gradual light and shade. The antique picture from the temple
of Juno: it is in thick stucco. The _sarcophagus_ of Epaphroditus
intire, finely carved with the history of Ceres. The front of Claudia’s
sepulchre, sister of Probus the emperor: her head is joined with his.
Eighty-five _termini_ of antique marbles, busto’s on seventy-two of
them.
[Sidenote: +Icening-street.+]
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