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LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VIII: Vision of the river god Tiber, journey to king Evander of Pallantium, Venus brings Aeneas new arms / vv. 81-85: Aeneas finds, as Tiber had prophesied, a sow with 30 piglets, and sacrifices her to Jupiter and Juno

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Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

140 - 150

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities) (inv. 1927,1212.1)

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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