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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 38

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nth represents a female who is forcibly borne away bya Centaur, and implores the aid of a Lapith, himself strugglingto escape from the grasp of another Centaur, who has followed andseized him. It has been thought that the female is Hippodamcia,and the man struggling with the Centaur Peirithous, who… … The Eighth represents a Centaur hurling with both hands someheavy object (probably a rock) at a Lapith, who is protecting him-self with his shield from his fore hoofs. To the right is a femalewith her cliild flying from the attack of another Centaur on an adjoin-ing relief. The Ninth contains two…

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