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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 201

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nd supports a lyre on his left arm,striking the strings of it with the fingers of the same hand. Hewears a tiara, armlets, and chiton. Victory wears a chiton,over which fulls a short upper-garment. Her right hand, whichis raised above her head, pours the libation from an oenochoe,and the phiale,… … •^, XJ o / subject is contained within a colonnade supported by Corinthianpillars. The lower part of this marble is not antique, but hasbeen restored from a more perfect specimen in the Villa Albani.A nearly similar representation occurs on a terra-cotta preserved inthe Museum, the subject of which…

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