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98 THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
over the whole empire Under Hadrian and his Suc-
cessors ; and the multiplication of little images of
Osiris, Isis, and Horus, as objects of private devo-
tion, was endless*.
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-j-, and which he decorated with such sta-
tues as were held in adoration by the antient
Egyptians. 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 }.
Several Alexandrine or Roman figures of Isis
occur among the bronzes bequeathed to the British
Museum by Mr. Payne Knight §, of which great
numbers were continually made, from the time of
Hadrian to that of Constantine, when the Egyptian,
or rather the Alexandrine religion with various modi-
fications had overspread the whole empire. The*
figures are draped after the Greek fashion.
Whether the Etruscan is to be considered as a
distinct school of sculpture seems questionable-
That there may have been works of art executed
in Etruria before the arrival of the Greek colonist5
* See Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, selected by the Society
of Dilettanti, Dissert, p. iii.
t " Tiburtinam viliam mire exffidificavit, ita ut in ea et P°~
vinciarum et locorum celeberrima nomina inscriberet: velli
Lyceum, Academiam, Prytaneum, Canopum, Pcocilen, Te^P,
Tocaret: et, ut nihil prEetermitteret, etiam inferos fir11"'
Spartianus in vita Hadriani.
X Description of the Ancient Terracottas in the British J'u'
seum, by Taylor Combe, esq. 4to. Lond. 1810, p. 20.
2,3,4,
See particularly the bronzes marked in his catalogue
u. i.
over the whole empire Under Hadrian and his Suc-
cessors ; and the multiplication of little images of
Osiris, Isis, and Horus, as objects of private devo-
tion, was endless*.
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-j-, and which he decorated with such sta-
tues as were held in adoration by the antient
Egyptians. 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 }.
Several Alexandrine or Roman figures of Isis
occur among the bronzes bequeathed to the British
Museum by Mr. Payne Knight §, of which great
numbers were continually made, from the time of
Hadrian to that of Constantine, when the Egyptian,
or rather the Alexandrine religion with various modi-
fications had overspread the whole empire. The*
figures are draped after the Greek fashion.
Whether the Etruscan is to be considered as a
distinct school of sculpture seems questionable-
That there may have been works of art executed
in Etruria before the arrival of the Greek colonist5
* See Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, selected by the Society
of Dilettanti, Dissert, p. iii.
t " Tiburtinam viliam mire exffidificavit, ita ut in ea et P°~
vinciarum et locorum celeberrima nomina inscriberet: velli
Lyceum, Academiam, Prytaneum, Canopum, Pcocilen, Te^P,
Tocaret: et, ut nihil prEetermitteret, etiam inferos fir11"'
Spartianus in vita Hadriani.
X Description of the Ancient Terracottas in the British J'u'
seum, by Taylor Combe, esq. 4to. Lond. 1810, p. 20.
2,3,4,
See particularly the bronzes marked in his catalogue
u. i.