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Word: heroditus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Already there has been secured from Bubastis, which Heroditus considered the most beautiful of all Egyptian temples, an exquisite colossal face of Hathor, the Egyptian Venus, which will probably be accompanied by a toppiece of the lotus-columns of the temple. As fast as the sculptures are received they will be placed in the Egyptian department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where they will form the most interesting collection of Egyptian antiquities in America, and will also be of great value from an artistic point of view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Harvard Scholar for Egypt. | 12/6/1888 | See Source »

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