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T.E. Lawrence once owned a bronze replica of Hypnos, the god of sleep.

In 1909, when he was on his way back from a tour of Syria, T. E. Lawrence passed through Naples and wrote a friend: "The bronzes in the Naples museum are beyond words". He paid a Neapolitan bronze foundry eight francs for a flawed freehand copy of the Hypnos head now in the British Museum (itself a Roman copy of a Greek work dating from the fourth century BC).

He wrote to his brother Will that it was "very good work, but a bad cast, modem naturally. I asked the price and tumbled down with it to eight francs, little more than the value of the metal. You will admire it immensely; and I'll give you five minutes to find out the fault in the casting".

After returning to Oxford he placed it on a seat in the bay window of his study in the garden bungalow, where it became his most cherished ornament. According to Vyvyan Richards, Lawrence would lie on the floor and contemplate it. He wrote that "nothing, not even the dawn–can disturb me in my curtains: only the slow crumblings of the coals in the fire: they get so red & throw such splendid glimmerings on the Hypnos & the brass-work". He also wrote to his brother Arnold: "I would rather possess a fine piece of sculpture than anything in the world".

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Sochi 2014 Closing ceremony | Russian literature

Details, part I; Claude Paradin: Devises Héroïques, 1551.

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