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No. XXXIV.
A bas-relief, representing Paris carrying off Helen in a car drawn
by four horses. Paris is attired in a Phrygian habit, and his head
is covered with the conical bonnet of that country. Helen is repre-
sented with a veil thrown over the back part of her head, and she is
in the act of drawing it forward on one side, as if to conceal her
face. The horses are executed with great spirit. This bas-relief
has been published by Winckelmann.(i) Dimensions 1 foot 7| in-
ches, by 1 foot 1 J- inch.
No. XXXV.
A bas-relief, representing Egyptian hieroglyphics These hiero-
glyphics, however, were neither made in Egypt, nor by an Egyptian
artist, but are of Roman workmanship, and executed perhaps about
the time of Hadrian. In the reign of that Emperor, the veneration
of Egyptian divinities prevailed to a very considerable degree at
Rome. Among the splendid buildings which Hadrian erected in
the grounds belonging to his villa near Tivoli, was a temple to
which he gave the name of Canopus,(2) and which he decorated
with such statues as were held in adoration by the ancient Egyp-
tians. The example thus set by the Emperor, was very generally
followed by the people, and it is owing to this circumstance that so
many imitations of Egyptian sculpture are found among the remains
of Roman art. Dimensions 1 foot 3-§- inches, by 1 foot 1% inch.
1 Monumenti Antichi Inediti, Tav. 117-
a Tiburtinam villain mire exsedificavit, ita ut in ea et provinciarum et loeorum cele-
berrima nomina inscriberet: velut Lyceum, Academiam, Prytaneum, Canopum, Poecilen,
Tempe vocaret: et, ut nihil prsstermitteret, etiam inferos finxit.—Spartianus in Vita
Hadriani. See Winckelmann Histoire de l'Art chez les Anciens, torn. i. p. 149. edit.
Paris.
No. XXXIV.
A bas-relief, representing Paris carrying off Helen in a car drawn
by four horses. Paris is attired in a Phrygian habit, and his head
is covered with the conical bonnet of that country. Helen is repre-
sented with a veil thrown over the back part of her head, and she is
in the act of drawing it forward on one side, as if to conceal her
face. The horses are executed with great spirit. This bas-relief
has been published by Winckelmann.(i) Dimensions 1 foot 7| in-
ches, by 1 foot 1 J- inch.
No. XXXV.
A bas-relief, representing Egyptian hieroglyphics These hiero-
glyphics, however, were neither made in Egypt, nor by an Egyptian
artist, but are of Roman workmanship, and executed perhaps about
the time of Hadrian. In the reign of that Emperor, the veneration
of Egyptian divinities prevailed to a very considerable degree at
Rome. Among the splendid buildings which Hadrian erected in
the grounds belonging to his villa near Tivoli, was a temple to
which he gave the name of Canopus,(2) and which he decorated
with such statues as were held in adoration by the ancient Egyp-
tians. The example thus set by the Emperor, was very generally
followed by the people, and it is owing to this circumstance that so
many imitations of Egyptian sculpture are found among the remains
of Roman art. Dimensions 1 foot 3-§- inches, by 1 foot 1% inch.
1 Monumenti Antichi Inediti, Tav. 117-
a Tiburtinam villain mire exsedificavit, ita ut in ea et provinciarum et loeorum cele-
berrima nomina inscriberet: velut Lyceum, Academiam, Prytaneum, Canopum, Poecilen,
Tempe vocaret: et, ut nihil prsstermitteret, etiam inferos finxit.—Spartianus in Vita
Hadriani. See Winckelmann Histoire de l'Art chez les Anciens, torn. i. p. 149. edit.
Paris.