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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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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. … 30 GREEK ANTIQUITIES. Besides the Sculptures of the Frieze which we have just described,there are some other fragments from the same Temple, which arepreserved in the Phigaleian Room : of these the three most important,Nos. 28,29, 30, arc portions of the Metopes from the portico of thePronaos,…

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