Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . VASES. 199 This closes the list of sigillaria, which forms the most importantportion of this collection, and Avhich throw considerable light on thestate of the arts in Tarsus, certainly not inferior to those in of the heads, although of small size, have a wonderful power andexpression, and the arts were generally in a high state at the seems to have been towards the close of the Caesars, to which periodthe female head-di
Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . VASES. 199 This closes the list of sigillaria, which forms the most importantportion of this collection, and Avhich throw considerable light on thestate of the arts in Tarsus, certainly not inferior to those in of the heads, although of small size, have a wonderful power andexpression, and the arts were generally in a high state at the seems to have been towards the close of the Caesars, to which periodthe female head-di-esses point. n. Utensils. Few vases were found. The most remarkable ofthese was an oenochoe, quite plain. Several pieces of red glazed Romanware, not the supposed Samian, but of the class called the false Samianby the English and French antiquaries, distinguished by not being of an. KG. 53.—A BASSO-RELIEVO GEM WITH A WREATH : PRIESTESS EXAMINING THEOPENING OF A FLOWER. equal colour throughout, and not stamped with the names of pottersinside. On the bottom outside of one cup is the letter T, in bas-relief,but not stamped, as the usual potters sigillum. Two pieces of cups in his excellent work, Nhieveh and its Palaces, p. 182, from the monuments discoveredby M. Botta at Khursabad, the figure of a sack or rather skin, and water-bearer witha leather helmet on his head, and also of a clasp by which his outer garment was fas-tened—a peculiarity of costume that leads to the siumise, he adds, that these peoploare from the coast of Cilicia, and may be called Miljie, who, Herodotus tells us, worehelmets of leather, and who had their vests confined with clasps. It is not a littlecurious, and corroborative of the fact, that the Assyrian water-beaiors were strangers,possibly some con(pered people from Cilicia or the neighbouring Taurus, that thewater-bearers in large town
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