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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 368

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The Discobolus found by Queen Elena at Laurentura in afragmentary state Disco])olus, found by Gavin Hamilton in 1781, wasrestored as a Diomedes stealing the Palladium; and afifth, of the Uffizi, was transformed first into an En-dymion, later into a son of Niol)e. No such fate has THE LAND OF PLINY… … Plaster cast of Queen Elenas Discobolus, with the additionof the right arm now in the Buonarroti Museum at Florenceand of the Lancellolti head, a cast of which has been foundin Paris by side with it a complete plaster cast has been placed,each of the missing limbs having been carefully chosenfrom…

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