Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . NO. 34.—HEAD WITH THEATTRIBUTES OF NO. 20.—IHIS. NO. 35.—COMIC MASK. 178 LAHES and PENATES. idea that they were intended to represent Iris; and as the figuies ofthis goddess were gaudily painted, it might have been done in water-colours, which have disappeared through age, whereas those that werepainted in fresco, with a layer of lime, still retain strong marks both ofthe lime and the body-colours used. See particularly No. 35, which is
Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . NO. 34.—HEAD WITH THEATTRIBUTES OF NO. 20.—IHIS. NO. 35.—COMIC MASK. 178 LAHES and PENATES. idea that they were intended to represent Iris; and as the figuies ofthis goddess were gaudily painted, it might have been done in water-colours, which have disappeared through age, whereas those that werepainted in fresco, with a layer of lime, still retain strong marks both ofthe lime and the body-colours used. See particularly No. 35, which isa fragment of a large comic mask that seems to have been fixed to a wallat a considerable height, as the eyes are looking downwards. The earis bored, probably for the purpose of fixing it more firmly. It wasperhaps part of a decoration of a theatre, and was covered with athick coat of paint, and must have been rejected as an image connecteduith idoJatry, by those who condemned it to take place with the rest of thepieces of this collection, and been cast out from the temples and privateresidences of the Cilicians on their conversion. It is natural to supposethat all figures would shar
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