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 . No. 122.—Medallion in relief, representing the shcwolf suckling Romulus aiid Kemus. Size i : 13. tion is a large medallion in rehef, measuring i*2om. indiameter, representing the she-w^olf suckling Romulus andRemus, of which 1 give an engraving under No. 122,though it is of no great artistic value. It is divided intothree compartments: in the middle one the she-wolf isrepresented on a rocky grou
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 . No. 122.—Medallion in relief, representing the shcwolf suckling Romulus aiid Kemus. Size i : 13. tion is a large medallion in rehef, measuring i*2om. indiameter, representing the she-w^olf suckling Romulus andRemus, of which 1 give an engraving under No. 122,though it is of no great artistic value. It is divided intothree compartments: in the middle one the she-wolf isrepresented on a rocky ground covered with a forest; inthe upper compartment, above the animal, are two stags,probably intended to characterize the locality; in the §!•] SCULPTURES OF THE THEATRE. ^13 lower compartment, beneath the twins, we see a grotto inwhich is represented the god Pan with his goats feet. Thehead of the she-wolf was probably in high relief and turned. No. 123.—Corinthian Capital of the theatre. towards the twins, in consequence of which it was brokenoff when the block fell. I show under No. 123 a Corinthian capital of thetheatre, and under No. 124 a restored acanthus-leaf of thesame. I may further mention a marble fountainornamented with a human head, from whichthe water poured into a large marble basin ;also a head and many feet of colossal were found in the theatre several Greekinscriptions, which will be given in the sub-sequent pages, together with a good manyothers found in the Acropolis and in the no. 124.—Restored ^^ r 1 1 • 1 Acanthus - leaf of cemeteries. One or them, which, as the the capital of theletters testify, is of a late Roman time, isengraved on a small marble column 0*25 m, high, theupper diameter being 0,125 mm., the lower 0,145 has on its top a hollow, which may have served for asacred offering.
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