A dictionary of Greek and Roman . form and depth of the vessel. The ornamentalpaterae sometimes represented leaves of fern, whichprobably diverged from the centre (filicatae, ad. i. § 2). Gems were set in others. ( iv. 24 ; Virg. Aen. i. 728, 739.) We readalso of an amber dish (electrinam), having in thecentre the countenance of Alexander the Great,and his history represented on the border. ( Trig. Tyr. 13.) The annexed woodcut con-tains a view and section of a plate of white marble. in the British Museum, which was found in theruins of Hadrians Villa,
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . form and depth of the vessel. The ornamentalpaterae sometimes represented leaves of fern, whichprobably diverged from the centre (filicatae, ad. i. § 2). Gems were set in others. ( iv. 24 ; Virg. Aen. i. 728, 739.) We readalso of an amber dish (electrinam), having in thecentre the countenance of Alexander the Great,and his history represented on the border. ( Trig. Tyr. 13.) The annexed woodcut con-tains a view and section of a plate of white marble. in the British Museum, which was found in theruins of Hadrians Villa, and purchased by It is 14 inches in diameter, and Ifhigh. It is cut with skill and delicacy, the marblenot being much more than a quarter of an inchthick. In the centre is sculptured a female bac-chante in a long tunic and with a scarf [Chlamys]floating over her head. This centre-piece is en-circled by a wreath of ivy. The decorations indi-cate the appropriation of the plate to the worshipof Bacchus. Plates were sometimes made so as to be usedwith either side downward, and were then distin-guished by the epithet aixtyideTos. (Horn. //. , 616.) In these the under surface was orna-mented as well as the upper. The Massilians andother Ionic Greeks commonly placed the undersurface uppermost. Plates were further distin-guished from one another by being either with orwithout a base (), a boss in the middle(o/i^aAaT^, ixea6fx(pa\o5, <p9o?s), feet (fiaXauooTTj),and handles. (Athen. xi. pp.
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