DELOS, GREECE—Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece ... such as Cicero’s mention of the statue of Artemis at Segesta, or the poet Callimachus ...

The city was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D., and as a result, many of the statues were preserved with some colors intact, such as a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis. However, according ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble ... about the treatment of a statue of Artemis. People "anointed her with ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain ... about the treatment of a statue of Artemis. People "anointed her with precious ...

In Delos, in Greece, inscriptions in temples reveal that some statues were maintained by ... spoke of a ritual treatment of a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, the forest and animals ...

“A white marble statue was not ... applied to religious cult statues in antiquity,” she said. Cicero for example spoke of a ritual treatment of a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt ...

The city was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D., and as a result, many of the statues were preserved with some colors intact, such as a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis. However ...

many of the statues that were anointed with perfumes were statues of Roman and Greek gods. In Sicily, for instance, the statue of Artemis was ritualistically anointed with perfume. At Greece’s ...

Texts from Cicero, Callimachus, and other ancient writers describe how statues were anointed with fragrant oils and ointments. In Sicily, for instance, a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt ...