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Frieze-like procession of draped women bearing offerings and horns, at right a man cuts a ram's throat before an altar, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dances

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Etching, Twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals sacrifices and dances
Twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals sacrifices and dances, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Phyllis Massar 2011
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Title: Frieze-like procession of draped women bearing offerings and horns, at right a man cuts a ram's throat before an altar, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dances
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Etching, Twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals sacrifices and dances.

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