By the figure of Sappho is inscribed the beginning of her name, [Greek: SAP] in letters of archaistic form.
It is possible that they may be a survival of the archaistic movement of the XXVIth Dynasty, to which we have already referred.
FLINT KNIFE] We have no specimen of a flint knife which can definitely be asserted to have belonged to an embalmer, but of the archaistic flint weapons of the XIIth Dynasty we have several specimens.
In any case, both fabrics must be regarded as much earlier than previously supposed; they are certainly not late archaistic work, and time must be allowed for their disappearance when the Hellenic fabrics of Apulia begin.
They must not, however, be regarded—as has been done by some writers—as deliberate archaistic revivals of older fabrics.
She is also depicted flying with a wreath, or as a conventional archaistic figure between tendrils and scrolls.
In its stead Silius presents us with a confused welter ofarchaistic battle, learned allusion, and epic commonplace.
There had always, it may be noted, existed anarchaistic section of literary society.
Archaistic imitations of the archaic seated and standing goddesses are often found in the Cyrenaica and Southern Italy; but the Chthonian deities appear but rarely among the types of more advanced style.
But his reasons for regarding them as an archaisticsurvival have not been generally accepted.
The vase represented in Plate 9 is a fine example of this archaistic school of the time of Yung Chêng.
Most scholars, however, prefer to think it simply anarchaistic work of the fourth century.
The rich and severe style may, for all we know--for direct evidence fails us--be the natural mark of some reactionary archaistic school about the time of Plato or Aristotle.
A large number of archaistic works appeared, imitated after the antique, as has already been mentioned.
In the former examples, though known to be antique, the treatment was more archaistic than archaic, and the monstrous decorative style of Asia was apparent, like that upon ancient vase-paintings.
Many of these archaistic works are in various museums of art.
There is an archaic stiffness about this statue, but the flowing hair, the form of the eyes, and the free style of the nude parts all show that it belongs to the archaistic period (Fig.
Or, rather, this is what they would be if his expression were to reach its full maturity and get rid of its present archaistic obsession.
Another important document is the Black Stone, a four sided prism with archaistic writing.
One, written in archaistic characters, from the south east palace at Kalhu, has long been known.
Hence, in spite of absurdities that had irremediably crept in, the archaistic texts copied in the XXVIth Dynasty are more intelligible than the same class of work in the XIXth and XXth Dynasties.
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