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Mercury Beseeches Achilles for the Body of Hector
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Mercury begs Achilles to return the body of Hector to his father Priam. Top right Jupiter instructing Thetis to soothe her son Achilles. In the margin a four-line inscription, in two columns, in Latin.
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Credit lineMercurius smeekt Achilles om het lichaam van Hector. 1613. Crispijn van de Passe (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
