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Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)

Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 188

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usCerdo, perhaps that of the artist,written in Greek characters on thepiece of marble which supports thestatue. It was found by Mr. GavinHamilton in 1775, near Civita Lavinia, in the ruins of a villa ofAntoninus Pius. No. 43 was found in the same place, and is moreentire than the former one, having… … TOWXELEY SCULFrURES. 171 No. 2* is a statue of Apollo, of the size of Kfe, naked, and no doubta copy from an early Greek work. The head is surrounded by aplaited diadem, and the hairfalls in curls upon the fore-head. Thf lower part of theright arm, the left hand, andwrist are lost. The veins…

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