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The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art (1860)

Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, Wood, J. E, Davies, Benjamin Rees · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 520

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EXCAVATED UNDER PERSONAL SUPERINTENDENCE. 65 Psyches—the classic number—in various attitudes, round acircular table, on which are numerous cups, rhytons, and asitulus. One is playing on short tibise; another is yawning,and stretching himself, with his arm extended upwards, and isadmirably executed.… … etc., are arranged on the couches, as before; but the table isremoved. One Cupid, on the extreme left, is playing on a longflute, while the principal figure is dancing in the midst, andplaying the castanets. It must not be supposed that the preceding illustrationsare fac-similes of these exquisite…

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