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Condivi's and Vasari's accounts of the iconography of the relief are mutually exclusive.
It has been suggested
(i) that the relief is based on HYGINUS, and shows DEIANIRA freed by ERCOLE (Strygowski) or is a fustion of two myuths (Frey, Thode)
(ii) that it depends from OVID and shows the abduction of HIPPODAMEIA (Wikhoff, Woelfflin, Tolnday).
TOLNAY identifies the figures as TESEO (left, holding a rock), PIRITHOUS (with back turned) attempting to rescue HIPPODAMEIA (right centre) and the centaur EURITHION (centre back).
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