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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 240

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s on the coins of Antiochus II.,or should have held a patera, as in the case of the type of Heracleson the coins of Amastris in Paphlagonia. The next (T. Q) is a small statue of Jupiter, with the attributes ofPluto, seated upon a throne, which is furnished with arms and ahigh back ; he is clothed… … T. 37.—Eumusia. on a footstool; the Cerberus placed on the right of his chair, and theeagle standing on the other side, show that this is a Pantheistic com-bination of two Deities in one. In the Roman period these blendedtypes were very common. Both the arms of this figure are modern ;the left has…

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