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Nymph with a shell. Marble, Roman copy of the 1st century AD after the known Hellenistic type of a young girl playing a game of knuckle-bones. The head is antique but does not belong to the statue; left arm, right hand and shell are modern restorations, altering the original type. Dimensions H. 60 cm (23 ½ in.) Credit line Borghese Collection; purchase, 1807 Accession number Ma 18 (MR 309) Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 17 Photographer/source Jastrow (2007) All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
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