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"inscription": "Written in pencil on recto: \"Bogen des Constantin, zu Ehren des Sieges \u00fcber den Maxentius (Rafael [?]) 312 erichtet, \u00fcber der Triumphalstrasse, welche heir in die Via Sacra einm\u00fcndete. Die Reliefs sind meistentheils zusammengetragen, so z. B. [zum Beispiel] vom Forum Trafans, \u00fcberhaupt aus dieser classischen Zeit. Die Darstellungen, welche aus Constantins Zeit angefertigt sind, erscheinen roh und geistlos.\"",
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"title": "The Year in Review for 1987",
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"description": "CMA, February 24 - April 17, 1988: \"Year in Review 1987,\" CMA Bulletin, 75 (February 1988), p. 66, no. 32.",
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