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Aurae. The Xanthian Heroon and an Attic Astragalos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

J. Six
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It is a generally accepted opinion that the marble figures which adorned the intercolumniations of the most magnificent amongst the Xanthian sepulchral monuments, now in the British Museum, represent the chorus of the Nereids, though there is as general a discord amongst those who have treated the question as to the meaning of their presence there. This seems a sufficient reason for questioning the accepted theory.

Let us state in a few words the subject: young maidens, clad in the thinnest garments, sailing by aid of their mantles over sea and shore, indicated by a fish, a dolphin, a waterfowl, a crab and a shell. They do not soar as high as the Nike of Paionios, who leaves the eagle beneath her in her flight, but they hover over the water without touching it, as is especially to be seen by the swimming waterfowl beneath one of them.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 13 , November 1893 , pp. 131 - 136
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1893

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