STATUE OF APOLLO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 July 1925, Page 7

STATUE OF APOLLO.

FIND IN BOM. BE If STREET OE ABUNDANCE. A large bronze statue about 6ft in height, believed to represent Apol.o. was excavated in the Via deli Addondanza (the Street of Abundance) in Bompeii. the ancient city which was destroyed b.v an eruption of Vesuvius iu A.D. 79. The statue is in a good stall 1 of preservation and it is stated to be of great value. ft has been taken to Naples Museum, where it will be examined by the Superintendent of Monuments to determine its artistic and historical value. Experts declare that th t . bronze Apollo statue may prove the most important distovery of its kind for many years. li. is stated to lie perfect in all its details. It wa s found only a little way below the ground. It was in the Street of Abundance four years ago that several notes on ivory tablets from patrician girls to successful gladiators were found. A translation of one of these Jove letters of 2(KX) years ago reads : Art thou Phoebus Apollo in the body of Hercules ? Indeed thou art a god to me. Thy beauty and strength have blotted from my eyes all other men. I am young and the suitors I despise say that I am beautiful. I will await thee, beloved one, near the Temple of Isis.