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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 259

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dress is seated to the left; by his side is a youth bearing a spear andshield; and in front of him is Priam in a loose dress and Phrygiancap in the attitude of a suppliant. This bas-relief probably formedpart of a continuous frieze representing the siege of Troy, like that inthe Museum of the… … 3O a clad in flowing robes, with a long beard, and a wreath of flowersround his temples. He leans on a naked Satyr, while another Satyris occupied in removing his sandals. Icarus is seated near Dionysuson a couch, which is covered by a lions skin; and near thecouch is a tripod, on which is a…

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