Report on the Phœnician and Roman Antiquities in the Group of the Islands of Malta |
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Page 118 - A female figure, on the right, is engaged in binding the hands of the central figure ; another female figure, on the left, having a pair of scissors in the right hand, and with the left holding by the beard the male figure, who is in evident distress at being about to be deprived of it.