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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 198

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of one of them, the head of the figure in front of thetripod, one head in the lowest range, and the patera in the hand ofthe youth who stands before Homer, are modern, together withthe moulding of the border. This most interesting bas-relief isprobably the copy of a larger design executed in the… … T. 1:37. TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. 181 electrotype facsimile of it. The marble itself was found about themiddle of the seventeenth century, at Frattocchi, the ancient Bo-villa;, on the Appian Road, about ten miles from Rome, at a spotwhere the Emperor Claudius had a villa. It was subsequentlypreserved…

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