Category: History - Ancient
In this Exhibition an attempt has been made to bring together a number of miscellaneous antiquities which formed a part of the collections of the Department, in such a method as illustrates the purpose for which they were intended, rather than their artistic quality, their mat...
The part of the collection now to be described deals generally with commerce and the industrial arts. We have already seen the bird-catcher (p. 115), the baker (p. 117), and the...
3. Part 3With the change to the Empire, reform in all directions was begun, and the coinage was set on a new basis. Gold was introduced to meet the needs of the metropolis of the world,...
13. Part 13Case 51 contains three examples of muzzles for horses (No. =509=), nearly complete, with a fragment of a fourth. These muzzles are in bronze, but we can hardly expect that this...
2. Part 2=Corn Largesses.=--From the end of the second century B.C. it had become a regular feature of Roman policy to supply the populace of the city with corn either gratis or at an ar...
8. Part 8=Early Greek Bronze Age.=--The first class consists of arms which belong to the Early Bronze Age in Greece, a period preceding the mature and extensive civilisation to which the...
11. Part 11=Toilet Boxes.=--Other relics of the dressing-table are the toilet-boxes and scent-bottles. There is a Greek toilet-box from Naukratis still coloured by the rouge which it conta...
15. Part 15Herodotus has a curious story to the effect that the Lydians invented dice, knucklebones, balls, and other playthings to help them to pass a time of famine, by playing and eatin...
7. Part 7Italian helmets are more like hats, giving no protection to the face unless cheek-pieces are added. An early form, from Ancona, is almost hemispherical, with wide brim and two l...
14. Part 14More elaborate than any of these are the examples of surgical appliances which have been found in the excavations at Pompeii, and are now at Naples. These are represented here b...
9. Part 9Below is a small bronze stool (No. =302=), without arms or back, of a type not uncommon at Pompeii. Two tripods with expanding legs are placed in the bottom of Cases 27-28. One...
16. Part 16Cymbals were largely used by the Greeks and Romans in religious ceremonies of an ecstatic character, such as the mysteries of Demeter and Kore and the worship of Kybele. Among t...
5. Part 5Near this tablet are several Roman dedications. Three curious silver-gilt plaques, probably of the second century after Christ (Nos. =133-135=), found at Heddernheim, near Frank...
10. Part 10=Greek Male Dress.=--A dress worn in early times was a tunic falling to the feet, with or without the mantle. It continued in use as a ceremonial and festal attire of elderly me...
4. Part 4A marble laver (No. =82=), originally decorated with a relief of Asklepios, Hygieia and Telesphoros, has been subsequently sculptured with votive dedications for a fair voyage....
6. Part 6A fight might end in three ways: (1) the better gladiator might kill his adversary in the heat of the fray; (2) the vanquished gladiator might lay down his arms and raise his le...
1. Part 1In this Exhibition an attempt has been made to bring together a number of miscellaneous antiquities which formed a part of the collections of the Department, in such a method as...
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