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| | Sample: Antiquities |
 | | The man tearing his hair in horror is almost certainly Laocoon, who is too late to do anything about the maschalismos, the dismemberment of his sons by the serpents of Apollo. |
| | As might be expected in a shrine, we see here, too, elements of the sacrifice: the dismemberment itself, as well as the sacrificial axe; and on the only parallel painting (also a vase from lower Italy) the axe-wielding woman wears a sacrificial apron wrapped around her hips. |
| | Upon the pedestal lie the remains of a dismembered boy: the torso and head, hands, a leg. |
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