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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 4 0 Browse Search
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 2 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
printing. Co-los′sus. A statue of gigantic size. The largest statue in Egypt, according to Diodorus Siculus, was that of Osymandyas, in the Ramesion. It is the Memnonium of Strabo. The pedestal is still standing; the court around is filled with its fragments. The foot, of which parts remain, must have been 11 feet long and 4 feet 10 inches broad; the breadth across the shoulders 22 feet 4 inches; the hight is calculated at 54 feet, the weight 1,985,438 pounds. The statues of Memnon are 60 feet in hight, including the pedestal. The latter is 13 feet high, but is half buried in the alluvial soil. The material is a coarse, hard breccia, with imbedded chalcedonies. The southern figure is in one block. The northern one was broken before the Christian era, and was repaired with sandstone, in five pieces, by one of the Roman emperors, probably Severus. The colossi of antiquity (Greek and Roman) are enumerated in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, p. 322
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
r, zinc, and tin, used for statuary, generally known as bronze. The proportions of the metals used are indefinite. Analyses of Keller's statues at Versailles give copper, 91.4; zinc, 5.53; tin, 1.7; lead, 1.37. Gun-metal, containing copper 9, tin 1, is frequently employed See brass; bronze; alloy. Stat′u-a-ry-cast′ing. Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus refer to massive statues set up in the temple of Belus, in Babylon, at a date supposed to be about 2230 B. C. The massive statues of Memnon, Osymandyas, and other Egyptian kings, are of stone, and attest a great degree of skill, so that it becomes impossible to determine when the arts of modeling and sculpture were invented in or introduced into the land of the Nile. The Egyptian statuettes are frequently of metal. The Roman Colossus set up by Nero, being a figure of himself, was placed before his Golden House, near the site of the temple of Venus, at Rome. It was of bronze, the work of Zenodorus, and Pliny gives its hight