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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 242

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T. 39.—Heracles. did not originally hold a thunderbolt, but was directed downMards,as was usual in the figures of Jupiter Serapis. The next (T. 45) isa Comic Actor, or scenic figure. It is a figure seated on a squareplinth, with the face covered by a comic mask, having the featuresof a Satyr,… … T. G.—Egyptian Tumbler. edge of the plinth, in order to support the body, and the feet arecrossed one over the other. There can be little doubt that this andsimilar figures represent Davus, or some other popular character on theRoman stage. The legs of this statue from the knees to the ankles,and…

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