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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 451

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part in hisusual attitude, with the finger raised to the mouth, wearing theEgyptian pshent, and holding a cornucopiae: some of them are accom-panied by a jackal and a hawk—a figure of Pan—two small statuettesand a head of Dionysos—and two busts of Ariadne or of a Bacchante.In Case 90 are several… … Bronzes of Sins. playing on the double flute, one of exquisite workmanship, and ano-ther wearing a orowa of ivy-berries set with garnets, and his eyesinlaid with silver—four figures of satyrs—a boy gathering fruit—Cupid on a rams head ; and Heracles strangling the Nemaean lion. In Case 91 are…

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