The statue of the Nile preserved in the Vatican Museums has a frieze depicting Nilotic scenes; comparison with written sources and especially with Pliny the Elder shows important coincidences that make the frieze's dependence on this source plausible, in the passage about the fight between the mongoose and the crocodile.
La mangusta e il coccodrillo: Naturalis Historia e committenza flavia / Paolo Liverani. - STAMPA. - (2022), pp. 271-279.
La mangusta e il coccodrillo: Naturalis Historia e committenza flavia
Paolo Liverani
2022
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The statue of the Nile preserved in the Vatican Museums has a frieze depicting Nilotic scenes; comparison with written sources and especially with Pliny the Elder shows important coincidences that make the frieze's dependence on this source plausible, in the passage about the fight between the mongoose and the crocodile.
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