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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 35

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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… … taur is striking with his hind hoofs the shield held up in defence byanother Lapith. The Third represents a female who has fallen into the powerof a Centaur, from whose grasp she is trying to extricate herself.She is carrying in her left arm a child. On the right of the marble

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