The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . Mu^eii» Cla-is oKti/^ ARCHAIC BAS-RELIEF FOUND NEAR MARATHON,. AND NOWPRESERVED IN THE TRMPLE OE THESEUS AT ATHENS. POLYCHROMT OF SCULPTURE, 253 upon sandals, and patterns upon the chair of a sitting latter are clearly visible from the non-corrosion of surfacewherever they extended, although all appearance of actual. colour or gilding has vanished. The Lycian fondness for colourwas evident also in their inscriptions, where the engraved letterswere sometimes painted red and blue alternately (see Fel
The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . Mu^eii» Cla-is oKti/^ ARCHAIC BAS-RELIEF FOUND NEAR MARATHON,. AND NOWPRESERVED IN THE TRMPLE OE THESEUS AT ATHENS. POLYCHROMT OF SCULPTURE, 253 upon sandals, and patterns upon the chair of a sitting latter are clearly visible from the non-corrosion of surfacewherever they extended, although all appearance of actual. colour or gilding has vanished. The Lycian fondness for colourwas evident also in their inscriptions, where the engraved letterswere sometimes painted red and blue alternately (see FellowsLycia^ p. 146.) Two miles from Limyra I copied a curiousbilingual inscription, Greek and Phoenician—the Greek letterswere painted red, and the others blue.* ATFr^TA2iATO/n-oMT/////K/<zy/MYTnkAi Toiz b rro/ oiz Within one of the galleries attached to the ancient theatreat Myra I found two Greek inscriptions, the letters of whichhad been filled in with red. ^c^^.clovv: \hh/\ovoto * Published in the Lycia, plate xxxvi. No. III. T 254 POLYCHROMY OF SCULPTURE. In 1844, during the government expedition to Lycia, Icopied some rock sculptures at Antiphellus, on which the blue,vermillion-red, and bright crimson colours Avere visible.* The accompanjdng Plate represents a stele monument atAthens, found in a tumulus at A^elanidisa, near Marathon. Ithas been published by M. Le Bas, in an article of the
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