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Various thoughts on identifying a bronze statue in a letter from S F Geoffroy to Hans Sloane and enclosed Bovin's hypothesis that the statue was Tages, or a gladiator, honoured by the Etruscans (paper copied here)

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RBO/9/4
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Concerning the identification of a bronze statue, RBO/9/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_9_4/concerning-the-identification-of-a-bronze-statue, accessed on 25 April 2025

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