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Paper, 'A paper concerning a statue of a gladiator or Tages' description of a small bronze statue by Stephen Geoffroy

Reference number: CLP/16/35

Date: 1701-1703

Description

Geoffroy shares various thoughts on identifying a bronze statue and encloses Bovin's hypothesis that the statue is Tages, a gladiator honoured by the Etruscans.

Subject: Antiquities

See 'Epistola Viri Reverendi D. Georgii Hickes, S. T. P. ad D. Hans Sloane, M.D. & S. R. Secr. De varia lectione inscriptionis, quæ in statua TAGIS exaratur, per quatuor Alpbabeta Hetrusca' for related writing on Tages (or Tagis) and Bovin.

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CLP/16/35
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1701-1703
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'A paper concerning a statue of a gladiator or Tages' description of a small bronze statue by Stephen Geoffroy, 1701-1703, CLP/16/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_16_35/paper-a-paper-concerning-a-statue-of-a-gladiator-or-tages-description-of-a-small-bronze-statue-by-stephen-geoffroy, accessed on 07 August 2026

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