The museum of classical antiquities - being a series of essays on ancient art (1860) (14776567431)

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Identifier: museumofclassical00falk (find matches)
Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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testify to itsspuriousness, the modern cave is convicted by its form, by the colour of itsmaterial, by its size, and its site, all together. It is square, Macariuss wasround; it is a square of 6 feet 9 inches;* Macariuss was a circle of about 12feet in diameter; it is open at top, Macariuss was arched; it can hold five * Mr. Scoles, an unquestionable authority, gives the dimensions as 6 feet8 inches by 6 feet 1 inch, and says more than half of this chamber, on thenorth side, is occupied by the tomb. Consequently the standing room must be6 feet 8 inches by less than 3 feet in width. Paschasius Radbertus says threepalms, w^hich is but little more than two feet. DUBLIN UNIV. MAG. 361 persons,* Macariuss could hold nine; it is of grey limestone, Macariuss wasof mottled stone, red and white. It bears from Calvary north-west; Macariuss,as shewn on Arculfs plan, due west. Every circumstance shews it to besuppositious—a forgery of a forgery, fabricated in an impossible place.(pp. 273-275.)t
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