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a bearded
a dog
a kneeling
a lionskin
a palm
a Phrygian
a radiate
a ribbon
a sistrum
a stalk
a tree
a vulture
Above
Abraxas
Abundantia
AC
acanthus
accompanied
according
Achilles
Achilleus
actor
added
Admetus
ADMON
Adolphus??in
Adonis?
adorned
advancing
aegis
AELIOS
Aelius
Africa
African
Africanus
aft
against
Agrippa
Agrippina
Aineias
Ajax
alabastron
alarm
Alathea
alatr
Albani
Albinus
Alcestis
Alexander
Alfonso
all
alleges
ALLIONOS
aloft
along
ALPHEOS
also
altar
altar?
altars
Amazon
Ammon
Ammonios
AMMONIOSANETHEKE
among
Amphitrite
an
an ant
anadyomene
Anchises
and
and Luna
and shouldering
andLucretia
ANDREAS CARRAFA
angel
anguished
Animal
ankh
anklets
another
Antaios
ANTI
Antike
ANTINOOS
Antinous
Antoine
Antonia
Antoninus
Antonius
Antony
anvil
ape
apex
Aphrodite
Apollo
Apollo?
APOLLONIOU
apotheosis
apparently
appear
appearance
appears
apples
approaches
approaching
arc
arch
arched
archer
arches
arching
arcs
ARDOU
are
are astrological?Libra
Ares
Ariadne
arm
armed
armour
arms
around
arranged
arrow
Artemis
artist
Arundel
as
ashlar
Asia?
Askanios
Asklepios
asleep
ASPASIOU
association
astragal
astride
astrological
at
at one
atacker
atanding
atef
Athena
athlete
Atilius
Atlas
attached
attachments
attacked
attacking
attend
Attic
attributed
Augustus
Augustus?
Aurelius
away
awning?
axe
AYΛ
babies
baby
Bacchic
Bacchus
back
background
backless
balanced
balancing
Balbinus
balcony
bald
balls
band
bare
bare-breasted
bared
bare-headed
baring
base
BASILISKOS
basin
basis
basket
BC
be
beaded
bear
beard
bearded
bearded-head-herm
beardless
bearing
beat
beautiful
Beazley
becomes
bed
bee
been
before
behind
being
bell
bell?
Bellerophon
belly
below
belted
Belvedere
bench
beneath
bent
Berenike
Berlin
Bernoulli
BERONIKE
beryl
beside
between
bevel
bevelled
Beyond
bezel
bibax
big
biga
billowing
bird
black
bladric
blazing
blazon
blobs
block
blowing
blue
bneside
boar
boat
body
Bonus
border
boss
Both
bound
bow
bowl
bowls
box
boxer
box-like
boy
Bracci
braided
branch
branch?
branches
break
breaking
breast
breasts
bridge
bridle
brim
British
broken
browsing
Brutus
Bull
bulls
bun
bunches
bundle
Burch
burning
bushy
bust
Busts
busy
but
butterfly
by
caduceus
caduceus?
Caesar
Caesonia
CALF
Caligula
Called
Calpurnius
cameo
Canopic
cap
Capitoline
capped
Capricorn
Capricorn?
caps
Caracalla
Cardinal
carefully
caressing
carried
carries
carrying
cart
castanet
caught
cavalry
cave
cave and
Ceasar
Celtic
cent
centaur
Centocello
central
centre
Ceres
certainly
cf
chair
character
characters
chariot
Charles
cheekpieces
cheeks
Cheiron
chest
child
children
Chimaera
chin
chiselling
chiton
chlamys
Chnoubis
CHNOUPHIS
Christ
circle
city-goddess
CL
clash
clasped
clasping
Classical
Claudian
Claudius
Claudius?
Cleopatra
climbed
clinging
Clio
cloak
cloth
Clotho
clouds
cloven
club
cock
cock before
Cocles
coins
collapsed
collapsing
collar
collection
Cologne
column
columns
combat
combination
comes
comforting
comic
commemorative
Commodus
companion
Confronted
confronting
conical
conjoined
containing
contemplating
conversing
copied
Copies
copy
cord
Corinthian
corkscrew
corn
cornelian
corners
cornucopia
coronet
corpse
corselet
corselet?
corseleted
corslet
couchant
could
covered
cow
cowl
crab
crater
crescent
crescents
crest
crested
crestless
Crispina
Cromwell
crook
crooked
cross
crossed
cross-hatched
cross-legged
crouch
crouching
crown
crowned
crowns
cub
cup
cup?
Cupid
curled
curls
curly
curlyhaired child
curved
curving
cut
cuts
cutting
Cybele
cymbals
cymbals?
d’Este
da
Dalmatia
Dalton
damaged
Danae
dances
dancing
date
Davus
de
de’
dead
dealings
death
Decius
decorated
decorating
dedicated
deer
deer?
defeated
defends
Demeter
described
deserted
details
Deutschen
device
devices
devive
diadem
diademed
Diana
Didius
diligit
DIOGENES
Diomedes
Dionysiac
Dionysos
DIOSKOURIDOU
Dioskouros
directions
disappears
disc
disc-and-horns
Disc-crowned
discobolus
discs
discussion
dish
dish?
dishes
distaff
dog
dog?
dogs
dolphin
dolphins
Domitia
Domitian
Domitian?
Domna
donkey
door
doorway
dot
double
dove
doves
down
downturned
draped
drawing
drawn
dress
dressed
drinking
drives
driving
droplet
dropped
drunken
Drusus
Duke
dying
each
eagle
eagle-head
eagles
ear
earring
ears
edge
edge inscribed
Egyptian
eight
either
Elagabalus
Elagabalus?
elbow
Elder
elderly
elephant
elongated
embraced
embraces
embracing
emerging
Emilianus
emperor
empress
enamel
Engraved
engraver
entering
enthroned
Entry
Eos
EPAGATHO
epaulette
EPOEI
EPOIEI
ERA
ERAK
erecting
Eros
Eros?
Erotes
Erymanthian
escapes
escaping
est
Europa
Europe
Eutyches
EUTYCHI
even
Eventus
except
exposing
extended
extending
extends
facade
face
faced
facing
facsimile
fall
fallen
falling
false
famous
fan
fashioning
fastened
Fate
father
Faustina
feather
feature
features
feeding
feet
feline
Felix
female
female?
FG
Fiamingo
Fides
field
fig
fighting
fights
figure
figures
fillet
finger
finial
first
fish
five
flail
flaming
flank
flaps
flaring
flat
Flavio
fleet
fleurs-de-lis
flies
flighted
floral
flower
flowers
flowing
fluted
fly
flying
folded crown
followed
following
foot
foot?
foot-bellows?
footrest
footstool
for
fore
foreground
forehead
foreleg
forelegs
forelock
forepart
foreparts
forepaw
fork
form
formed
Formerly
Fortuna
fortune
forward
forwards
four
four-horse
four-lion
fourth
Four-winged
Fragment
France
free
fringed
frog
from
front
Frontal
frontally
fruit
fruit?
full
Full-face
full-faced
fully
fur
Furtwängler
GAIOS
Galba
galley
galloping
Ganymede
garlanded
gate
gateway
gem
Gemmen
gems
Generally
genitals
GENNAI
Germanicus
gesticulates
gesture
giants
girl
girl satyr
girt
give a
globe
GNAIOU
goat
goat-legged
god
goddesses
golden
good
Gordian
gorgoneion
Graces
Granvelle
grapes
grazing
greaves
Greek
greeted
greeting
greets
grffin
grieving
griffin
griffin?
griffins
Grotesque
ground
Ground line
group
Gryllus
gryllus?
guard
guides
Gustavus
had
Hadrian
Hadrian?
hair
hairband
hairbands
half-naked
hammer
hammerer
hammering
hammers
hand
hand stretched
hand to
handing
handles
hands
hang
hanging
hangs
hare
harnessed
Harpocrates
has
hat
hatched
Hathor
have
hawk
he
Head
head-and-neck
headdress
headdress?
headless
heads
Heavenly
heavily
held
Helena
Helios
Hellenistic
helmet
helmet?
helmeted
helmeted?
helmetless
helmets
hemispherical
Henri
Hephaistos
Hephaistos?
her
Hera
Hera?
Herakles
Herakles?
Herculaneum
Hercules
Hercules?
here
herm
Hermaphrodite
Hermes
hero
heroes
herself
Hesperides
hide
high
high-girt
hilt
him
himation
himself
hind
hippocamp
hippocamps
Hippokrene
his
his chin
hold
holding
holds
holidng
hooded
hooked
hoop
Horatii
Horatius
Horatius is
horn
horned
horned-animal
horns
horse
horseback
horseman
Horsemen
horses
Horus
Hostilianus
human
huntsman
hydria
Hygieia
Hyllos
IAΩ
ICHTHYS
identified
if
II
II?
III
implement
implements
in
incased
incense
including
incunabulum
indicated
indicating
infant
Initial
Inscribed
inscription
inscriptions
instruments
intaglio
into
inventory
inverted
Ionic
Iphigeneia
is
Isiacus
Isis
it
Italian
Italic?
its
IV
ivy
ivy-crowned
ivy-leaf
ivy-wreathed
Jacopo
James
janiform
jar
Jerusalem
jewels
Judgement
jug
Julia
Julian
Julio-Claudian
Julius
jumping
jumps
Junius
Juno-Isis
Jupiter
Jupiter-Ammon
Jupiter-Serapis
kantharos
King
Kings
kithara
knee
kneeling
kneels
knobbed
knot
knotted
KOIMOU
Kriophoros
KVINTIL
Kyrene?
labelled
labour
ladder
lady
lagobolon
lampadion
lamps?
landscape
Laocoon
lap
lapdog
lappets
large
larger
last
late
latter
laureate
laurel
laurel?
laurel-crowned
laurel-wreathed
layer
lead?
leading
leads
Leander
leaning
leans
leaping
leaves
Leda
left
leg
leg?
legend
legs
length
Lepidus
Libya
lid
lidded
lies
lifting
light
lighthouse
like
liknon
LIMC
line
linen
lines
lintel
lion
lion?s
lioness
lioness?
lionskin
lituus
Livia
lock
locks
loin
London
long
look
looking
looks
loose
loosely
Lord
lotus
Louis
LOUKTEI
love
low
lower
lowered
LTI
Lucifer
Lucius
luck
lying
lyre
Lysippan
Macedonian
Macrinus
made
Maecenas
Maecenas?
maenad
maenad?
magic
main
mainly
making
male
males
Mammaea
Mammaea?
man
marble
Marcellus
MARCHANT
Marciana
Marcus
Mariette
Mark
Marlborough
marmoset
Mars
Mary
mask
masks
masonry
Maximian
Maximian?
Maximianus
may
Mazarin
me
meant
Medici
medley?
Medusa
Melanippos
Meleager
mêlée
Melpomene
men
Methe
Michael
middle
Middleton
Minerva
mingens
Minotaur
minute
missing
Mithraic
Mithras
Mithridates
mitra
MNEMONEUE
modelled
modern
modius?
Moira
moon
more
motif
mounted
mourning
mouse
moustached
mouth
much
Museum
musical
muzzle
naked
name
Naples
narrow
Nathaniel
Natter
Nau
near
nebris
neck
necklace
negress
negroid
Nemesis
Nereid
Nero
Nerva
Neverov
next
NICE
NICOΛ
NICOLAC
Niger
nihil
NIKANDROS
Nike
no
nodus
non
nondescript
Nonsense
NOOS
nos
not
notched
now
nymph
oak
oarsmen
object
obscure
ock
Octavia
Octavian
Octavian?
ODEMENI
Odysseus
of
off
offered
offers
ofliberty
oinochoe
old
old-man
Oliver
Omphale
on
once
one
only
open
opposite
or
original
Originally
Orléans
ornate
other
others
Otho
OTIATOU
OURANIA
out
outlined
outside
outstretched
oval
over
over his
ovoid
owl
owls
owner
oxen
OY
painting
pair
Palladion
palm
paludamentum
Pan
Pannuti
panther
pantheress
parasol
Paris
part
part-dressed
Pasiphae
passant
passing
paste
patera
pattern
paw
pawing
peacock
peacock?
pearls
pectoral
pediment
pedum
pedum?
Pegasos
Peleus
Pelleted
pellets
pelta
peplos
perfecte
perhaps
period
Perronet
Perseus
Persian
perspective
Pertinax
Pescennius
petasos
Petersburg
Phaethon
Phaethon?s
phiale
Philip
PICHLER
Pichler?
pickaxes
piece
pileus
pillar
pilos
pinching
pinned
pipe
pipe?
pipes
Pius
pl
placing
plain
plaited
plam
plate
Plato
platter
Plautilla
play
playing
plays
plough
plume
plump
plunging
poet?
point
point-down
pointed
pointing
points
Poitiers
polished
Polyxena
Pontus
poodle
poor
poppies
poppy
portly
Portrait
portraits
pose
posed
Poseidon
Possibly
pot
pot?
pots
poulterer
pouring
pours
presenting
Priam
priapic
Priapus
Priapus?
priest
probably
procession
profile
Promachos
prominent
proper
propped
prostrate
prostyle
Protector
prow
Psyche
Ptolemaic
pulling
pulls
Pupienus
purse
pursues
quadriga
quail
queen
qui
quiver
quod
Radiate
rain
raised
raises
raising
ram
rams
rather
rattle
rays
RE
reaches
real
reaper?
rear
rearing
reclines
reclining
recumbent
reduced
reed
reference
regarded
Regulus
rein?
Reinach
reins
relics
relief
remarks
rendered
representation
representing
resembling
resting
restoring
rests
reveal
reverse
ribbon
ribboned
ribbons
ridden
rides
riding
rigging
right
ring
ringlets
rises
rising
river
river god
robust
rock
rocks
Rocks?
rocky
rolling
Roman
ROME
roof
roots
rosette
rosettes
rostral
roughly
round
rudder
ruler
run
running
runs
Sabina
sacrifice
sacrifices
sacrificing
Sagittarius?
Said
sails
saints
sakkos
Sammlungen
SANCTAE
sandals
SAPH
Saturn
satyr
satyr?
satyrs
scabbard
scale
scales
scarab
Scarisbrick
sceptre
scheme
scorpion
Scots
scroll
scroll?
scrolls
sculptor
sea
seated
second
see
seems
seen
segment
Seidmann
seizing
Selene
SEMESEILAM
semicircle
Septimius
Serapis
serpent
SERVERINAE
set
setting
Sev
Seven
Severus
shaking
she
sheep
shell-chariot
shield
shields
shields with
ship
shipwreck
shore
Short
should
shoulder
shouldering
shoulders
showing
shown
shows
shrine
sickle
sickle-sword
side
sides
signature
signed
signet
signs
Silenos
Silenos?
similar
singeing
siren
Siries
Sirius
Sirletti
sisters
sistrum
sitting
Six followers
skin
skipping
skirt
SKYLAKO
slain
slaughtering
slave
slightly
slipping
small
smaller
snake
snake?
snake-legged
snakes
so
Socrates
soft
Sol
Sol?
soldier
soldiers
Solon
some
something
son
Sophronios?
SOSTRATOU
sow
spades
Spain
spear
spears
speculation
sphinx
spider
spirit
spotted
spread
sprig
St
staff
stag
stained
stalks
stall
stand
standard
standed
standing
stands
star
statue
steady
steadying
stepping
steps
stern
stick
still
stone
stool
stooping
stoops
storms
Story-Maskelyne
Stosch
strangling
straps
stretches
striking
strip
struggle
style
stylis
subject
suckling
suggested
summary
sun
support
supported
supporting
supports
supposed
Surface
surprise
Surrounded
Susanna
suspended
SVP
swags
Swan
swans
sword
sword?
swords
symbols
Syra
syrinx
table
tablet
tail
Taken
taking
Talbot
tall
tambourine
Tassie
tearing
Telephos?
temple
tendril?
tendrils
than
that
the
The bridge
the right
the shoulder
them
then
There
Theseus
Thetis
Thick
THIE
thigh
thighs
thin
third
this
three
Three-quarter
threshold
throne
through
thrown
thunderbolt
thyrsos
thyrsos?
tiara
Tiberius
Tiberius?
tied
time
times
tiptoe
tip-toe
Titi
Titus
to
to the
toga
tolleret
tongs
top
torch
torch?
torches
torso
tortoise
towards
tower
Tragic
Trajan
trampling
transparent
trap
treated
tree
trees
tree-trunk
Trezzo
trident
Triple
tripod
Triptolemos
Triton
triumphal
Triumvirat
trodden
Trojan
trophy
Troy
trumpet?
trunk
TRYPHON
tub
tucked
tunic
tuning
turned
turning
turret-crowned
Turreted
Tuscan
twelve
twisted
two
two others
two-ended
two-pronged
Two-sided
Tydeus
tympanon
type
ULTOR
uncertain
under
undercut
unknown
unusual
unveiling
unveils
up
upper
upright
uraei
uraeus
urn
Usually
Valerian
Valerian?
Valerianus
vase
Vatican
vaulted
veil
veiled
veiled?
Venus
Venus?
version
versions
vertical
Verus
Very
Vespasian
vessel
VI
via
Victory
Victrix
view
views
Villa
vine
vine-wreathed
Virgin
visor
Vitellius
Vollenweider
volute
vulture
waist
walking
walks
wall
walls
warrior
warriors
was
washing
watched
water
watering
waves
Wavy
wearing
wears
Weary
weath
web
Wedding
wheat
wheel
wheels
when
where
which
while
whip
white
who
whom
whose
wicker
wife
William
windblown
winds
wine
wineskin
wing
winged
Wingless
wings
with
with bands
with collared
within
wolf
woman
woman?s
women
work behind
working
workshop
world
worship
worshipped
wound
wounded
wounded?
wrapped
wreath
wreathed
wrestling
wringing
wrist
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young
Younger
younger?
youth
youthful
youths
Zeus
Zeus?
zodiac
Zwierlein-Diehl
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