Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . HEAD OF SEKAlIS. of an Egyptian deity who presided over the dead. He is thenusually represented with a modius on his head, and rays. Busts :— Colossal bust found at Otricoli, Vatican; another in theBoboli Gardens, Florence ; others in the British , Vatican. British :— The Verospi Jupiter. A seated statue in the Vatican. Hera.—Juno. The principal attribute of Hera is the veil which the betrothedvirgin draws around her, as the symbol of her separation from therest of the world. Phidias characterizes her,

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Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . HEAD OF SEKAlIS. of an Egyptian deity who presided over the dead. He is thenusually represented with a modius on his head, and rays. Busts :— Colossal bust found at Otricoli, Vatican; another in theBoboli Gardens, Florence ; others in the British , Vatican. British :— The Verospi Jupiter. A seated statue in the Vatican. Hera.—Juno. The principal attribute of Hera is the veil which the betrothedvirgin draws around her, as the symbol of her separation from therest of the world. Phidias characterizes her, in the frieze of theParthenon, by the throwing back of the veil. She generally wearsa sort of crown, or diadem, called Stephanos. The countenance ofHera, as it was established, probably by Polyclitus, presents formsof unfading bloom and ripened beauty, softly rounded, without toomuch plumpness; awe-inspiring, but free from rnggedness, as ex-emplified in the noble colossal head of the villa Ludovisi. Theforehead, encompassed with hair flowing obliquely

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