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The sculpture is 45.5 cm high and 47 cm long. It was discovered in an archaic fountain under the mosaic floor of the House of Nero. It is heavily dented, but almost entirely intact; only the ends of the legs and the tail have been broken off. The curved tail had been snapped off, but it has been
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