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The Townley Gallery (1836)

British Museum, Townley, Charles, 1737-1805 · London : C. Knight · leaf 33

An illustration from The Townley Gallery, 1836, leaf 33
. TOWNLEY GALLERY. 19 Atys. … of sculpture. It belongs to the school of Praxiteles, and is supposed to have been part of a statue Atys, or Attis, had a shrine at Dyme in Achaia, where he was associated with Dindymene. Pau- sanias, lib. vii. 17, gives the strange fables told of his birth and life in two wild versions, one of…

Townley, Charles, 1737-1805 · British Museum · Sculpture, Classical

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