. The life of the Greeks and Romans. ctories were thefiguratores (modellers), flatuarii or /mores (founders), tritores(turners or polishers), ccelatores (chisellers), crustarii (the workmenwho attached the bas-reliefs to the surface of the vessel), and theinauratores or deauratores (gilders). Many valuable vessels havebeen recovered in the present century; others (for instance, severalhundred silver vessels found near the old Ealerii) have tracelesslydisappeared. Amongst the discoveries which haj^pily haveescaped the hands of the melter we mention the treasure of morethan one hundred silver ve
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. ctories were thefiguratores (modellers), flatuarii or /mores (founders), tritores(turners or polishers), ccelatores (chisellers), crustarii (the workmenwho attached the bas-reliefs to the surface of the vessel), and theinauratores or deauratores (gilders). Many valuable vessels havebeen recovered in the present century; others (for instance, severalhundred silver vessels found near the old Ealerii) have tracelesslydisappeared. Amongst the discoveries which haj^pily haveescaped the hands of the melter we mention the treasure of morethan one hundred silver vessels, weighing together about 50 lbs.,found by Bernay in Normandy (1830). According to theirinscriptions, these vessels belonged to the treasury of a templeof Mercury; they are at present in the late imperial library at g g 2 452 ROMAN VESSELS. Paris. In the south of Russia the excavations carried on in 1831,1862, and 1863, amongst the graves of the kings of the Bosphoricempire, have yielded an astonishing numher of gold and silver. Fig. 451. Osere (1836) a number of silver vases (now in the Museo Grego-riano) were found in a grave. One of the most interesting dis-coveries was made near Hildesheim, 7th October, 1868, consisting of THE TREASURE OF HILDESHEIM. 453 seventy-four eating and drinking vessels, mostly well preserved ;not to speak of numerous fragments which seem to prove that onlypart of the original treasure has been recovered; the weight of allthe vessels (now in the Antiquarium of the Royal Museum, Berlin)amounts to 107*144 lbs. of silver. The style and technicalfinish of the vases prove them to have been manufactured inRome ; the form of the letters of the inscriptions found on twenty-four vessels indicates the first half of the first century after surfaces of many of them are covered with alto-relievos of beatensilver—a circumstance which traces back their origin to imperialtimes, distinguishing them, at the same time, from the bas-reliefornamentatio
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