. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. rget. And just above the ruins there is asmall museum which contains several very interest-ing things, and one thing that is superb. This last is the enormous and noble upper part ofthe statue of a woman wearing ear-rings. I do notknow its history, though some one assured me thatit was a caryatid. It was dug up among the ruins,and the color of it is akin to that of the earth. Theroughly undulating hair is parted in the middle of amajestic, goddess-like head. The features are pureand grand; but the two things that most struck me,as I looked
. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. rget. And just above the ruins there is asmall museum which contains several very interest-ing things, and one thing that is superb. This last is the enormous and noble upper part ofthe statue of a woman wearing ear-rings. I do notknow its history, though some one assured me thatit was a caryatid. It was dug up among the ruins,and the color of it is akin to that of the earth. Theroughly undulating hair is parted in the middle of amajestic, goddess-like head. The features are pureand grand; but the two things that most struck me,as I looked at this great work of art, were the expres-sion of the face, and the deep bosom, as of the earth-mother and all her fruitfulness. In few Greekstatues have I seen such majesty and power, com-bined with such intensity, as this nameless womanshows forth. There is indeed almost a suggestion ofunderlying fierceness in the face, but it is the fierce-ness that may sometimes leap up in an imperial I 24 RUINS OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF VltA* MYSTERIES AT ELEUSIS. RUINS OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF THEMYSTERIES AT ELEUSIS
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