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Figure 109: Figures wearing wreaths of leaves and flowers, “Heracles and Telephos Before the Personification of Arcadia,” Roman wall painting from Herculaneum (c. 1st century AD), after a Hellenistic
Kiva mural, painting by Hopi artists Michael Kabotie and Delbridge Honanie, c. 2001.
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