Identifier: outlinesfromfigu00hami (find matches)
Title: Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton with engraved borders
Year: 1804 (1800s)
Authors: Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803 Kirk, Thomas, 1765?-1797 Miller, William, 1769-1844 Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719-1805
Subjects: Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803 Vase-painting, Greek Vase-painting, Roman Vase-painting, Etruscan Vases
Publisher: London : W. Miller
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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, forthe expiation of which this hero submitted himself tobondage; it may also be intended to represent the geniusof love, announcing to Omphale the object of her passion,and soliciting her attention from the female, who is seatedat her feet. This female, contrary to the custom of her sex,wears her hair short, which, like the figures of Electra,must have some particular signification; it may indicate asort of confusion of sexes, which was permitted amongstthe Lydians. The servant, who holds in her hand a symbolof Venus in the form of a fan, marks the power of thatgoddess, who confines Hercules in the train of Omphale,and obliges him to wear a dress so little suited to hischaracter. It is scarcely necessary to expatiate on the beauty ofthis design; its superior merit is a suflftcient recom-mendation. PLATE LV. The offerings made by the ancients to their deities, con-sisted of three kinds, libations, incense, and victims. ThisPlate represents a libation. All the figures are in the Y\.5i
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( 37 ) diflPerent dresses, prescribed by their religion. They havethe crown and the toga, and their feet are bare, and with-out sandals. The figure on the right is the person onwhose account the ceremony is undertaken, as is evidentfrom the branch of laurel or olive, which he holds in hisleft hand. By the description, which Statins gives in thetwelfth book of his Thebais, of the song repeated upon analtar erected at Athens to Clemency, we are informed, thatall those, who wish to address their vows or prayers tothe gods, must carry a branch of laurel or olive. Thesebranches are called iKEtrihoci, and there are fillets oftenattached to them, called vitta and stemmata. The bowl,which he holds in his right hand, is for the purpose ofreceiving a part of the wine employed in the libation,that he may either drink it immediately, as is sometimesthe case, or carry it home and preserve it as a sacredthing, and well adapted to prevent disease and every kind of misfortune. The second figure is th

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