This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...was evidently contained in a circular medallion bordered with the guilloche pattern. Around the medallion were four oblong panels placed between the angles containing the Seasons. These probably represented mythological subjects, because in the one which is tolerably well preserved appear figures which may be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...was evidently contained in a circular medallion bordered with the guilloche pattern. Around the medallion were four oblong panels placed between the angles containing the Seasons. These probably represented mythological subjects, because in the one which is tolerably well preserved appear figures which may be recognized as Perseus and Andromeda. The scene as represented is after the liberation of the girl, when she and her preserver are seated on the sea shore. The male figure holds aloft in his right hand the Gorgon's head, and Andromeda looks at its image reflected on the waters, for had she looked directly at the monster she would have been petrified at once. In the left hand of Perseus appears the weapon with which the head was severed. The representation of the shore is worked in dark brown and other coloured tessera, indicating rocks. At the feet of the figures are apparent indications of the monster associated with the myth. This panel is, as were doubtless all the others, bordered with the guilloche pattern. Between the two stone piers already named and dividing the two pavements of this apartment, is a subject of considerable interest: in the centre is a square panel containing a male figure, wearing a black beard, seated in what appears to be a chair; he is semi-nude, there being but little drapery except at the lower portion of the figure. At his left side stands a pillar, surmounted by what is thought to be a gnomon or sun-dial, but which we ourselves believe to be an illustration of the twelve houses, the number of the compartments See Carthage and her Remains (page 191), by Dr. N. Davis. London, 1861. 8vo. corresponding with the signs of the Zodiac. It bears, however, a striking resemblance to the Solarium or quadrant lately found at Tusculum....
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