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GODS AND MYTHS

Achilles / Cycles / Woburn Abbey sarcophagus
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / Death of Hector / Priam pleads with Achilles to release the body of Hector / Hector's body weighed to calculate his ransom
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / Death of Hector / Priam pleads with Achilles to release the body of Hector / Hecuba present
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / Death of Hector / Priam pleads with Achilles to release the body of Hector / Miscellaneous

Further details

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

3rd century (second quarter)

Location

Woburn, Woburn Abbey

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))
Otto Fein (Photographer (analogue))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

E. Angelicoussis, The Woburn Abbey Collection of Classical Antiquities, Monumenta Artis Romanae XX, Mainz 1992, cat. no. 63

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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