Identifier: catalogueofsilve00brit (find matches)
Title: Catalogue of the silver plate (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the British Museum
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944 Smith, Reginald A. (Reginald Allender), 1873-
Subjects: Silverwork, Ancient Art objects
Publisher: London : Printed by Order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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stippling, and its tail ends in a triple point.Round the rim of the interior eight plants or trees are faintly incised. On the exterior is an engraved design representing an Egyptian landscape :The water of the Nile is indicatedby waves, in which is a Nile-boat,with a man in it bending forwardto r. and plying a pole. In frontof him is a lotos-plant, andbeyond on r. a serpent rearing tor., confronting a seated dog;between them and behind thedog are lotos-plants, and threemore beyond. Next is a crocodileto 1. in the background, and inthe field five lotos-plants ; beyond,an ibis pecking the ground to1., and three lotos-flowers, alsoanother object. All the flowersseem to be the lotos, in differentstages of growth, or seen fromdifferent points of view. Plate VIII. Diam. 12-5 cm. Asia Minor, 1894.Very late style. For tlie Egyptian scenes cf. the terracotta reliefs such as D 633 ff. inBrit. Mus., and Von Rohden and Winnefeld, Antike Terrakotten, iv. pt. i, p. 159 (withreff. there given). -;
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Fig. 25 = No. 77 fe.it.). 78. Flask. Long cylindrical neck, the mouth broken^away ; slender stem and smallfoot ; body top-shaped. Round the neck, two gilt bands of ornament, vandyke-pattem between rings of punctured dots, and wave-pattern between similar rings ;round the stem long acanthus-leaves with points between, also gilt. Round theshoulder, frieze of ox-skulls alternating with festoons, above which are four-petalledflowers. Round the body, a frieze of figures representing a sacrifice to Artemis :Woman to r., advancing 1. foot and holding out a lyre in r. hand ; her hair is knottedat the back, and she wears bracelets, and himation (gilt) round her lower limbs. Infront of her is an altar, over which a nude beardless figure facing to the front holdsup a human mask or osciUum ; he wears a himation (gilt) twisted round his loins,and appears to hft with his 1. a conventionally-treated fold of his drapery. The altaris in the form of an Ionic capital with oval top ; it is gilded and pun

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