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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 41

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(ireeks and the Amazcns, comprises four figures, one Greek and threeAmazons. To the left, a fallen Amazon is strugsjling with a Greek,who has seized her (apparently) by the hair of the head. To theright, another Amazon is protecting with her shield one who is on theground, and unarmed. The… … 24 GREEK ANTIQUITIES. seem, the Amazon on the adjoining slab, who is protected by hershield. In the middle of the slab is a single combat between a Greekand an Amazon ; and to the right another Amazon, who is sinkinglifeless to the ground. The Fourteenth contains a representation of a Greek…

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