. Catalogue of the silver plate (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the British Museum. LOGUE OF SILVER PLATE. Sepolcro del Nasonii, pis. 22-25) • see also the Wilton House sarcophagus (Robert, iii. pi. 136, no. 432). The resting animals of Summer and Winter may beintended to suggest the stationary position of the sun at the solstices, while the movingpanthers of Spring and Autumn indicate the activity of Nature at the Onthe Horae generally in art, see Roscher, Lexikon, ; Hermaim, de Horanim figuris ;Von Rohden andWinnefeld, Antike Terrakotten, iv. pt. i, p.
. Catalogue of the silver plate (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the British Museum. LOGUE OF SILVER PLATE. Sepolcro del Nasonii, pis. 22-25) • see also the Wilton House sarcophagus (Robert, iii. pi. 136, no. 432). The resting animals of Summer and Winter may beintended to suggest the stationary position of the sun at the solstices, while the movingpanthers of Spring and Autumn indicate the activity of Nature at the Onthe Horae generally in art, see Roscher, Lexikon, ; Hermaim, de Horanim figuris ;Von Rohden andWinnefeld, Antike Terrakotten, iv. pt. i, p. 89; Kohert, AyitikeSarkophag-Reliefs, ii. p. 3 ff. 75. Bowl. Form as Cat. of Roman Pottery,pi. 42, No. 22, with vertical sides andlow foot. Round the exterior is a friezeconsisting of two groups di\ided bymasks : (i) Stag running to r., pursuedby a dog, with a tree between ; on r.,a youthful male mask to 1. (2) Doerunning to 1., pursued by a dog, withtree between ; on the r., head of woman to r., with hair knotted at back. Aboveand below the design are double rows of Fig. 24/. = N,.. 75. Ht. 2-7 cm. Diam. 6-8 cm. Found at Valence, Dr6me, France, 1817. ComarmondColl., 1851. Bronze, plated with silver in the interior. For the style of decoration Caubiac bowl. No. 139, and Bonner Jahrbiicher, 118, p. 190, fig. 3. 76. Vase. Globular body with flat base ; orifice about 23 mm. wide, with moulded rim ;may have had a lid. Roimd the body is a frieze in relief, representing a fishing-scene from the salt lakes of the Egyptian Delta : Beardless fisherman to r., with hatand short loose chiton, holding a basket in r. hand and a string of fish in 1., his 1. legis wanting. In the field in front is a crab ; on the r., above, two fishes in high relief ;below, duck to 1. standing on a fish, with head thrust out. Next is an elderly fisher-man, bald and beardless, wearing loin-cloth, seated to 1. on a rock ; he holds a fishing-rod in 1. hand, with a fish at the end of the line wh
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