Explication nouvelle de l'apothéose d'Homère, représentée sur un marbre ancien
Subtitle: de l'usage du trépied de Delphes et de l'emploi des engastrimythes
By: par Mr Schott, ...
Contributors: British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Publisher: Chez Jean Boom
Published: 1714
Place of publication: A Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: In art
Notes: Title page in black and red.

Provenance of the relief: the via Appia (Bovillae) to the Palazzo Colonna in Rome to the British Museum.  Cf. Burn, L.  BM book of Greek and Roman art, 118.

Getty copy lacks folded leaf of plate showing the relief itself.

Armorial bookplate of William Charles De Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam on front pastedown.
Table of contents: title: "Explication des savans" [Kircher, Cuper, De Spanheim, Heinsius Gronovius, Wetstein], p. 7-25, Latin in italics; title: Kircher's "Explication du marbre", p. 126-131, Latin in italics; title: "Quelques remarques de Mr. Lenfant", p. 132, in roman; title: Schott's interpretation in roman type, occupies the intervening pages 25-131.