Abstract

Fine Arts

A collection of the interesting statuettes from Tanagra has been received in this city, and has excited a lively pleasure in the few who have yet been invited to inspect it in its present resting-place at a residence in Lafayette Place. The terra-cotta figures from Tanagra tombs have been known to archeologists for six or seven years. A few archaic tombs containing vases were first discovered, and then a series dating from the time of Alexander, the Great, each revealing, besides a large bombylios-shaped drinking-pitcher at the head of the skeleton, from two to six statuettes in clay. Other statuettes of like character were found outside, scattered over the lids of the sepulchers like the flowers strewn at a funeral, to the number of twenty or even fifty for a single tomb.