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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 61

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Xi). 95. No. 96 represents the Wi7iged Yictory. There can be but littledoubt about this attribution, the holes still remaining at the back ofher shoulders into which the wings have been inserted ; the wingsthemselves were doubtless of metal, probably of bronze gilded. Thisfigure was probably placed… … No. 96. No. 97 is a group consisting of three female figures, the oneto the left seated nearly upright and the other two reclining.They have been usually called the Fates, an attribution which is inharmony witli the rest of the myth. According to the Greeklegends, the Fates were present, as…

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