Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . debted to the skilful hand of my friend Mr. Schone,Director General of the Royal Museums at Berlin, whokindly gives me the following description of it: A goddess, evidently Athene, is in lively movementtowards the left. She has lifted her right arm, of whichonly the shoulder is preserved, probably in order to deal astab with the lance upon the warrior to her right, who hassunk down at her feet.
Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . debted to the skilful hand of my friend Mr. Schone,Director General of the Royal Museums at Berlin, whokindly gives me the following description of it: A goddess, evidently Athene, is in lively movementtowards the left. She has lifted her right arm, of whichonly the shoulder is preserved, probably in order to deal astab with the lance upon the warrior to her right, who hassunk down at her feet. With her left hand she has caughthold of his head, but it is not clear whether she is graspinghim by the hair or by the helmet, as the head is for themost part broken away. She wears an overhanging chiton^ §!•] MACEDONIAN SCULPTURES. 20I which is girdled below the breast, and has on her left arm alarge round shield. It cannot be recognized with certaintywhether she wears an aegis on her breast. Her head isbroken off. The warrior, who with his right is trying toliberate himself from the left hand of the goddess, appearsto have been quite naked, only having a large roundshield on his left No. io8.—Fragment of a Metope of marble of the temple of Athene, of the Macedonian period,representing a goddess, probably Athene, with a large shield; holding by her left a warriorwith a shield, who vainly strives to liberate himself from her grasp. Size about i: 9. This sanctuary is, no doubt, identical with the templewhich was built here by Lysimachus.* In my excavationsI found its sculptured marble blocks scattered about overthe whole north-eastern part of the hill of Hissarlik. On the Strabo, XIII. p. 593 : Ava-L/Maxp? fxaXtarra Trj<; ttoXcws l-rrefXiXyfi-q /cat vtwv KUTecTKtuacre. 202 GREEK AND ROMAN ILIUM. [Chap. V. same side were brought to light several large foundationsconsisting of well-wrought blocks of calcareous stone, butthey were too much destroyed for my architects
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