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    The Bassae Frieze is the high relief marble sculpture in 23 panels, 31 m long by 0.63 m high, made to decorate the interior of the cella of the Temple...
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    Bassae (Latin: Bassae, Ancient Greek: Βάσσαι - Bassai, meaning "little vale in the rocks") is an archaeological site in Oichalia, a municipality in the...
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    known from descriptions and small ancient copies. The Bassae Frieze, from the Temple of Apollo at Bassae, contains a number of slabs portraying Trojan Amazonomachy...
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    late-5th century BC, scenes from the Trojan War are preserved in the Bassae Frieze, a high relief marble sculpture in 23 panels. Here the Greek army is...
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    Winged Victory of Samothrace, sculpture claimed by Greece Bassae Frieze, temple sculptures from Bassae in the British Museum "Elgin and Kincardine, Earls of" ...
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    in the museum thereafter. The collections were supplemented by the Bassae frieze from Phigaleia, Greece in 1815. The Ancient Near Eastern collection...
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    jumble of fallen stone. From this British antiquaries extracted the Bassae Frieze in 1812, which was soon in the British Museum. In Italy, Paestum, some...
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    with a cast of the Bassae Frieze from the 5th century BCE Greek temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae. The originals of this frieze were discovered by...
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    Naqsh-e Rustam and Naqsh-e Rajab Ancient Greece: The Parthenon Marbles, Bassae Frieze, Great Altar of Pergamon, Ludovisi Throne Mesopotamia: Ishtar Gate of...
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    Armento Rider Arundel Head Asclepius of Milos Barber Cup and Crawford Cup Bassae Frieze Beaurains Treasure Blacas Cameo Boscoreale Treasure Boy with Thorn Braganza...
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    Haller and Linckh during their excavation of the temples at Aegina and Bassae. In 1816 John Jr. returned to Liverpool and joined the family building firm...
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    Morea, aiming for the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae in Arcadia. The magnificent Bassae Frieze that Cockerell discovered at the temple was eventually...
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    Armento Rider Arundel Head Asclepius of Milos Barber Cup and Crawford Cup Bassae Frieze Beaurains Treasure Blacas Cameo Boscoreale Treasure Boy with Thorn Braganza...
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    earliest Corinthian capitals, already in fragments and now lost, were found in Bassae in 1811–12; they are dated around 420 BC, and are in a temple of Apollo...
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    Armento Rider Arundel Head Asclepius of Milos Barber Cup and Crawford Cup Bassae Frieze Beaurains Treasure Blacas Cameo Boscoreale Treasure Boy with Thorn Braganza...
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    were the one-twentieth-scale models he created of the Parthenon and Bassae friezes. These took him twelve years to complete. Many others then copied this...
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    BC-destroyed in 1778 Ancient Greek Ionic columns in the Temple of Apollo at Bassae, Bassae, Greece, illustration by Charles Robert Cockerell, unknown architect...
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  • 1969. Among the galleries created, was one built specifically for the Bassae Frieze with the same interior dimensions as the Temple of Apollo from which...
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    Armento Rider Arundel Head Asclepius of Milos Barber Cup and Crawford Cup Bassae Frieze Beaurains Treasure Blacas Cameo Boscoreale Treasure Boy with Thorn Braganza...
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    5th century BC Ancient Greek Doric columns in the Temple of Apollo at Bassae, Bassae, Greece, c.429-400 BC Ancient Greek Doric temple depicted stylized on...
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    Armento Rider Arundel Head Asclepius of Milos Barber Cup and Crawford Cup Bassae Frieze Beaurains Treasure Blacas Cameo Boscoreale Treasure Boy with Thorn Braganza...
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    was initially used internally, as at the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae (c. 450–425 BC). In 334 BC, it appeared as an external feature on the Choragic...
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  • Armento Rider Arundel Head Asclepius of Milos Barber Cup and Crawford Cup Bassae Frieze Beaurains Treasure Blacas Cameo Boscoreale Treasure Boy with Thorn Braganza...
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    Agrigento Temple of Poseidon on Cape Sounion Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae Temple of Athena Lindia at Lindos Temple of Dionysus at Teos Hollinshead...
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    order can be found in the Temple of Apollo at Bassae, built in the mid-5th century BCE. The temple's frieze, which features a procession of figures, is...
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    Bavaria; and in 1812 they exposed parts of the temple of Apollo at Bassae (the frieze they found on it is now in the British Museum) and Aeacus's temple...
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    applied to friezes, dentils and other decorated areas. The oldest known example of a Corinthian column is in the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae in Arcadia...
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    decorated by a Classical frieze. The architects claim the circular entrance vestibule is derived from the Doric Temple of Apollo at Bassae, first excavated by...
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  • World (Room 22), the Parthenon galleries (Room 18), and the display of the Bassae sculptures in the British Museum. He was a major participant in the team...
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    marble coffering over the ambulatory, some with original colourful paint. Bassae Oichalia (Greece) 37°25′47″N 21°54′01″E / 37.42972°N 21.90028°E / 37...
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