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Excerpt from Guide to the Collections Besides these portraits, our Roman sculptures include a sarcophagus (no. 46) with a representation of the contest of the Sirens and the Muses, a table support (no. 56) with a fine decor ative design, and a relief of Herakles carrying the Erymanthian boar (no. A Roman archaistic work imitating the Greek archaic style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.