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vase (black figures ou red) figured in Auserlesene Vaser- 

 bilder. With this exception the releases thus far examined 

 are as various, and many of them quite as enigmatical, as 

 those seen among the ancient Egyptians. I puzzled for 

 a long time over these sculptures from the temple of 



Fif?. 40. Egyptian. 



Athena to which Mr. Hansard refers, and was forced to 

 coine to the conclusion that, despite their acknowledged ac- 

 curacy, the release was an impossible one. It was not till 

 sometime after that T learned that the figures had been care- 

 fully restored by Thovaldseu, and the restored parts com- 



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Fig. 41. Egyptian. 



prised the hands and arms, as well as the extremities of 

 most of the figures. With this information I had occasion 

 to hunt up a history of these figures, and found the follow- 

 ing in a work by Eugene Plon entitled "Thovaldsen his Life 

 and Works," republished in this country by Roberts Broth- 

 ers. The figures were restored by Thovaldsen in 1816. 

 Among the restored i)arts were the hands of the archers. 

 " The statues were in Parian marble, and he used so much 



