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Patroclus being carried to his funeral pyre as Achilles places a lock of hair on the body
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Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1986
Title: Patroclus being carried to his funeral pyre as Achilles places a lock of hair on the body
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