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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 39

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d is stranglinghim. The Tenth represents a Lapith springing: upon the back of a Cen-taur, who has disrobed a female who clings for aid to a Sacred image inthe back ground. The Lapith has caught the Centaur round the neckwith his left arm, and is striking him with his right. Before thenaked female… … 22 GREEK ANTIQUITIES. man is Theseus taking vengeance on the Centaur Eurytion for disrob-ing Hippodameia ; but there is nothing on the slab itself to confirmthis attribution.

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