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Caption: Dedication - Allerton Park
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The north portion of the Park is entered through the gateway seen above, reached either by the road from Monticello or from highway 47. Adorning each of the gate pillars are Bedford limestone copies of the well-known and much admired statue of the "Charioteer of Delphi." This work, done in bronze by an unknown sculptor, dates back to approximately 470 B.C., and probably commemorates the skill and ability of a king of Cyrene, in ancient Greece. The orig nal, now in the museum at Delphi, is a fragment of a group in which the central figure is standing erect and relaxed in a chariot, the reins in I outstretched arms, about to receive tin IUI wreath as a reward for a triumphant \ 3
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