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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 267

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a satyr, and the whole is placedwitnm a portico supported by two fluted pilasters of the Ionic order. The next is a fragment of a sarcophagus found at Rome near theMausoleum of Augustus, and supposed to represent a Poet and aMuse. It represents two figures, under an arcade supported by… … A Poet and a JIuse. The next is one of the four sides of a sarcophagus executed inalto-relievo, brought from Athens, and representing five of the la-bours of Heracles. In four of them—the capture of the Maenalianstag, the death of Diomcdes, the conquest of the Amazon, and thecombat with Geryon may…

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