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Gallo-Roman relief, Musee de l'Arles Antique, Arles, France

Phaedra's nurse declaring her mistress' love for Hippolytus, relief detail from the sarcophagus of Phaedra and Hippolytus, imported from Greece and finished in Arles by a Gallo-Roman sculptor, marble, mid 3rd century AD, in the Musee de l'Arles Antique, an archaeological museum built 1995 by Henri Ciriani and extended in 2013, at Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The museum is built on the ruins of the Roman Circus, and houses many artefacts from the town's Gallo-Roman history from 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Phaedra's nurse declaring her mistress' love for Hippolytus, relief detail from the sarcophagus of Phaedra and Hippolytus, imported from Greece and finished in Arles by a Gallo-Roman sculptor, marble, mid 3rd century AD, in the Musee de l'Arles Antique, an archaeological museum built 1995 by Henri Ciriani and extended in 2013, at Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The museum is built on the ruins of the Roman Circus, and houses many artefacts from the town's Gallo-Roman history from 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen