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| | ASPROM: Achilles on Vectis: a new interpretation of a mosaic from Brading, by Anthony Beeson |
 | | This paper proposes a new identification for a damaged panel in the great mosaic of room XII at Brading, and identifies the version of the subject, surviving as a mural at Pompeii, from which the figures are drawn. |
 | | The closest parallel, and the best evidence that the Brading panel is an Achilles, comes from Pompeii.[6] In the House of the Vettii are the remains of a badly damaged variant of the Scyros scene that appears to record the lost original on which the Brading figures are based. |
 | | Although most of the Brading figures are portrayed nearly full face, much use is made of sideways glances, and as the fleeing girl is never the subject of Achilles’ attention, a glance ‘off canvas’ away from her seems most likely. |
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