Bryaxis

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Bust of Serapis. Roman copy of the original Bryaxis.

Bryaxis (

Athenodoros Cananites expressly pointed out that the Bryaxis connected with the Alexandrian statue was merely a namesake of the famous Bryaxis.[2] The works of Bryaxis include a bronze statue of Seleucus, king of Syria, five huge statues at Rhodes,[3] and a statue of Apollo at Daphne near Antioch.[4]

References

  1. ^ Fergusson, John (1862). The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. London: John Murray. p. 8.
  2. ^ Michaelis, Ad. (1885). "Sarapis Standing on a Xanthian Marble in the British Museum". Journal of Hellenic Studies. 6: 289–292.
  3. ^ Smith, Sir William (1849). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Boston: Charles C. Little, and James Brown. p. 513.
  4. ^ Gardner, Ernest Arthur (1897). A Handbook of Greek Sculptures. Vol. 2. London: Macmillan and Co. p. 374.