. A description of the East, and some other countries . up as a vowon fome deliverance. I brought from Afia Minor the piece of a marblefoot B ; it muft have belonged to a Coloflal ftatue, as it is fix incheswide; the workmanfhip is very fine, but the great particularity of it isthat it feems to reprefent the wooden fandal, the upper part of which isabout an inch deep, and the lower part three quarters of an inch : Itappears as if the ligature had been fixed on each fide to the wood, thatthere was a covering of the foot under it from that part upwards,and that this covering was fixed to the fan
. A description of the East, and some other countries . up as a vowon fome deliverance. I brought from Afia Minor the piece of a marblefoot B ; it muft have belonged to a Coloflal ftatue, as it is fix incheswide; the workmanfhip is very fine, but the great particularity of it isthat it feems to reprefent the wooden fandal, the upper part of which isabout an inch deep, and the lower part three quarters of an inch : Itappears as if the ligature had been fixed on each fide to the wood, thatthere was a covering of the foot under it from that part upwards,and that this covering was fixed to the fandal by a firing which wentbetween the toes. I bought the earthen lamp D, at Kept in upper iEgypt,which is the antient Coptus in the Thebaid ; it feems to have the nameof fome faint on it, the letter n being under the handle ; confequentlyit is a Chriftian work. I brought from Aleppo the bronze ftatue C,which, as well as the lamp, and the other drawings which follow, is ofthe fize in which it is reprefented ; it feems to have been defigned as an1 orna-. -^J^BRONZE FOOT,A, of ABRO^TZE STATUE, C ^LA1>
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