Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . vases, now in the Museum (PL LXVL), areof reddish brown terracotta, handsome in colourand effectively adorned in white with a Saracenicscroll or some lettering. We can picture to our-selves, also, many of these women stopping for gossipgathered round the basins at the foot of the giarre(PL LXIL), the tall, imposing, and now so pic-turesque water-towers, built over wells or water-pipes from distant well-springs, and pressing upthe water by some kind of siphon arrangement—which we must accept on the authority of Amarias an inheritanc
Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . vases, now in the Museum (PL LXVL), areof reddish brown terracotta, handsome in colourand effectively adorned in white with a Saracenicscroll or some lettering. We can picture to our-selves, also, many of these women stopping for gossipgathered round the basins at the foot of the giarre(PL LXIL), the tall, imposing, and now so pic-turesque water-towers, built over wells or water-pipes from distant well-springs, and pressing upthe water by some kind of siphon arrangement—which we must accept on the authority of Amarias an inheritance from the Arabs. As for their clothes, it is possible, if not certain,that the townswomen took their walks abroad, neverunattended when young, enveloped in some kindof voluminous draped garment, Grasco-Oriental incharacter, and drawn well forward over the faceso as to hide the chin and sometimes only leave anarrow slit for the eyes, as the women of someparts of Sicily still wear the fine old mantu, somefifty years ago in general use [see PL LVIL).298 LXVI. ARABO-NORMAN WATER-JAR, MUSEUM, PALERMOThe style of the lettering, according to Dr. Moritz, is somewhat later than that of the inscription on the stele, PI. attached to the wall to the left of the jar, afragment of inscription inlaidin porphyry and serpentine [cf. p. 127). To the right the quadrilingual in-scription mentioned on p. 45. f. 298 LXVII
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