3-003-975 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Cyrene Marbles in the British Museum: a priest, 1861. Statue from Cyrene, an ancient Greek and later Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya. 'The small figure of a priest is of the very latest period; but it has its value as showing us, however faintly, something of the manners of that time; for the attitude and expression are too characteristic not to raise a clear idea of the man who sat for this representation of his class...[One of]...a selection of antiquities collected by Mr. Werry, her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Ben-Ghazee, a town which represents the ancient Hesperides, afterwards Berenice, the westernmost of the five cities of the Cyrenaïca'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.