Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

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and suffice to show that the group belongs to the infancy of art, and
probably proceeds from the school of Dipcenus and Scyllis, and may
be dated about the sixth century B.C.1 -

Reliefs of a Stele (Pillar) at Sparta, called
'The Amphiaraus Stele.'2

(Fig. 24.)

Of the same Doric character are the reliefs on a pillar lately dis-
covered in the house of Demetrius Minusakis at Sparta. This stele

Fig. 24.

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the amphiaraus stele.

-which somewhat resembles the old milestone of our high roads
-stands on a plinth, and is about 2 ft. 6 in. high, and 1 ft. 8 in. by

1 Treu, Jiericht, No. 41. i. T> *• Taf. iv. v. Zweites Streifen

2 Conf. Vase of Caere, publ. by Roberts, links.