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Inscription

Upper center in red ink: Hippuri celeres et nigro tergore Milui; creatures in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., .5., .6., .7., .8., .9., and .10. in red ink; shells in image numbered .11. and .12. in red ink; center right in brown ink: XVII.; lower center in brown ink: Verroni MVRAENA datur, quae maxima venit / Gurgite de siculo.
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: .10. / Quae natat in siculo grandis Murena profundo, / Non valet exustam mergere sole cutem.; lower center in blue ink: .10. / Auratis Mur[a]ena notis, Merulaeq[ue] Virentes.

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

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