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Iscrizioni de Liberti e Servi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Cleveland Museum of Art

Black and white illustration of a large pile of ruins and fragments of stone and broken architectural elements. The image contains a stone block with the carved head of a woman wearing a head dress adorned with berries on the bottom left. Fragments are scattered throughout the image with letters labeling them. There are 16 labels total, from A to P, excluding I and K and O. The background shows a wall with several inscribed stone blocks scattered across it, and some greenery in the top corners. A large, illegible text block at the bottom. The illustration appears on aged paper with darker edges.

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900 × 815 px
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