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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 47

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PHIGALEIAN SALOON. 29 The TuerUy-Second represents two different scenes. That to theright is a single combat between a Greek and an Amazon. That tothe left is a scene ofa Greek dragging away another Amazon, behindwhom is a square-shaped object, possibly an altar to which she hadfled for refuge. … The Twenty-third^ and last slab of the series, represents on theright an Amazon supporting a dying friend, and on the left another,who is apparently interceding with one of her comrades for a Greekwho has fallen wounded on the ground.

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