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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 218

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rity which is said to have been that of Pericles—a remarkably long head, for which reason Plutarch observes thathe was usually represented helmcted. This head was found in 1781,about a mile from Tivoli, in the Pianclla di Cassio. A repetition ofthe same head, in a more finished but less ancient…

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