Her gilded sculpture is a winged palm figure, based conceptually on The Winged Victory of Samothrace, and is intended to be evocative of the Biblical Tree of Life. |
For centuries it lay in fragments in the ruins surrounding a temple in Samothrace. |
It was as though some one had engaged the Victory of Samothrace to enact the part. |
He advises him to yield to Antiochus and retire to Samothrace. |
They arrived that day at Galepsus, and the next at Samothrace, to which they were bound. |
Analogous rites proved that they were also in Lesbos and Samothrace. |