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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 40

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The Eleventh represents two figures, the one in, and the otherpreparing to ascend, a chariot drawn by stags. As the upper part ofthis marble has been injured, it is not quite certain what the subjectrepresents; but it has been supposed that the figures are Artemis andApollo respectively, the former… … 11. PHIGALEIAN SALOON. 23 of the Centaurs and Lapithas, at present arranged consecutively onthe left hand side of the Phigaleian Room, and in order of numbersfrom right to left. We now proceed to describe slab by slabthe second subject, the Contest between the Greeks (Athenians) andthe Amazons. The…

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