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Some of these are not works of art but important inscriptions, the first Greek inscriptions that had been seen in England, from which historians have confirmed many dates in Greek history. Among them is the
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Closeup of Roman statue of Eros, 100-200 CE depicting Eros sleeping, his torch turned down, a symbol of death used in many Roman memorials.
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The Oxford Bust or "Sappho" with head and torso coming from different statues and probably put together by a sculptor in the 1600s View 2
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The Oxford Bust or "Sappho" with head and torso coming from different statues and probably put together by a sculptor in the 1600s
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Closeup of Statue of a woman with hairstyle dating to the later Roman Republican or Augustan period but body dating to 200-100 BCE
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Roman statue of Eros, 100-200 CE depicting Eros sleeping, his torch turned down, a symbol of death used in many Roman memorials.
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First century CE togate torso bearing a 17th century CE head dubbed Caius Marius by the Earl of Arundel excavated in 1613-1614 CE
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The Earl of Arundel had supervised excavations in Rome, and deployed his agents in the Eastern Mediterranean, above all at
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Statue of a woman with hairstyle dating to the later Roman Republican or Augustan period but body dating to 200-100 BCE
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in the early seventeenth century, the first such comprehensive collection of its kind in England. They are now in the
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Portrait of a young man with hairstyle, facial features and long neck pointing to portraits made in the early 100s CE
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Fragment of a marble sarcophagus depicting two drunken boys from a Bacchic revel, made in Athens 140-150 CE
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A smaller fragment of the relief, covering 356–299 BC is conserved in the museum on Paros.
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Collection of classical sculptures and inscriptions, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Man wearing a toga excavated in Rome 1613-1614 and later given the name "Caius Marius"
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Sphinx commissioned by the Earl of Arundel to partner a Roman Sphinx, 17th century CE
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The Arundel marbles were catalogued as early as 1628, when, at the suggestion of Sir
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arises from hence, that it furnished the greatest part of the Marmora Arundeliana.
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So-called Cicero excavated by the Earl of Arundel in Rome between 1613 and 1614
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So-called Cicero excavated by the Earl of Arundel in Rome between 1613 and 1614
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and she donated them to the Ashmolean, where they are sometimes called the
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with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for filling the
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The bulk of the collection was a gift by Arundel's grandson
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Chambers' Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities
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Arundel Marbles

Ancient Greek sculptures
Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
Ashmolean Museum
Oxford
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
John Evelyn
John Selden
2nd Earl of Pomfret
Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret
Easton Neston
Istanbul
İzmir
Smyrna
Arundel House
Ephesus
Museum of London
Parian Chronicle
Paros
Arundel Head
Hellenistic
Asia Minor
British Museum
Robert Bruce Cotton
John Selden
Patrick Young
Richard James
Richard Chandler
lacunae

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