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Description: | BUST
After the Roman copy of a lost Hellenistic Greek original, sculpted about 100BC.
HC960 is cast after the Roman work in the British Museum (BM Cat Sculpture 1825), found in 1780 at Baiae on the Bay of Naples and purchased by Charles Townley from Gavin Hamilton for £80. | Publisher: | University of St Andrews | Rights holder: | 47795 | Subjects: | GAVIN BAY OF NAPLES PORTRAIT GREEK POET TOWNLEY ROMAN WILLIAM CHARLES BAIAE sculpture BUST HAMILTON KNIGHT HOMER | Temporal: | 1800/1900 | Source: | University of St Andrews | Creator: | unknown | Identifier: | HC960 | Language: | en-GB |
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