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This panel may have been part of a decoration for a piece of furniture, possibly a marriage chest.
Helen, the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, is being carried off by Paris, together with other women from the Temple of Apollo and Artemis in Cythera, to a waiting ship. It was this action which precipitated the Trojan War.
Helen, the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, is being carried off by Paris, together with other women from the Temple of Apollo and Artemis in Cythera, to a waiting ship. It was this action which precipitated the Trojan War.
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