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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 34

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The First slab represents a Centaur who has been thrown down,and who is held by one of the Lapithae by the hair of his head from … 1. in front, while a second is attacking him from behind. A secondCentaur has seized the uplifted arm and the shield of the secondLapith. All these marbles are engraved in the Ancient Marbles in BritishMuseum, part iv. PHIGALEIAN SALOON. 17 The Second represents two Centaurs and two Lapithae, One…

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