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Marble Head of a Horse
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The horse's head, two photographs of which appear on Pl. XXIV., was procured in the neighbourhood of Tarentum and presented to the British Museum by J. Reddie Anderson, Esq.This presentation is a new and pleasing indication of the interest felt by private collectors in the British Museum, and of the increasing feeling that only in public collections can ancient monuments be protected from risk; a thesis which I have already had occasion in my Introduction to Ancient Marbles in Great Britain to maintain and to enforce by many sad instances.I comply with the request of the Editors of this Journal in accompanying the photographs with a few remarks.According to a note by Professor Percy Gardner, the quality of the marble is not very fine. The length of the head, from end of mane over forehead to lip, is 0·46 m., the height from bottom of cheek-bone to top of head 0·34 m. The lower lip is wanting, the ears have been broken.
Title: Marble Head of a Horse
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The horse's head, two photographs of which appear on Pl.
XXIV.
, was procured in the neighbourhood of Tarentum and presented to the British Museum by J.
Reddie Anderson, Esq.
This presentation is a new and pleasing indication of the interest felt by private collectors in the British Museum, and of the increasing feeling that only in public collections can ancient monuments be protected from risk; a thesis which I have already had occasion in my Introduction to Ancient Marbles in Great Britain to maintain and to enforce by many sad instances.
I comply with the request of the Editors of this Journal in accompanying the photographs with a few remarks.
According to a note by Professor Percy Gardner, the quality of the marble is not very fine.
The length of the head, from end of mane over forehead to lip, is 0·46 m.
, the height from bottom of cheek-bone to top of head 0·34 m.
The lower lip is wanting, the ears have been broken.
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