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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 57

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, Hyperion, or the God of Day, who is repre-sented rising from the ocean ; his head, arms, and shoulders haveemerged from the waves, Mhich are conventionally sculptured uponthe plinth, in parallel rows like overlapping tiles. His arms arestretched forward to guide the reins of his coursers, but the… … No. M. 40 GREEK ANTIQUITIES.

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