. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations . Fig. 130. Persain Candys. Candys {). A Persian cloak of woollencloth, generally purple in colour. Canephoria. Greek festivals of Diana; oran incident of another feast, called pratelia, inwhich virgins about to marry presented baskets{canea) to Minerva. The name, Canephorus, orbasket-bearer, was
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations . Fig. 130. Persain Candys. Candys {). A Persian cloak of woollencloth, generally purple in colour. Canephoria. Greek festivals of Diana; oran incident of another feast, called pratelia, inwhich virgins about to marry presented baskets{canea) to Minerva. The name, Canephorus, orbasket-bearer, was common to the virginswho attended processions of Ceres, Minerva,antl Bacchus, with the consecrated cakes, in-cense, and other sacrificial accessories, in theflat baskets called canea. Canette. A conic-shaped German drinking-mug, resembling the modern schoppen, ofwhich highly ornamented examples in whitestone-ware have been produced by the potters of Cologne(Fig. 131-) and other parts of Fig. 131. Canette of whitestone-ware, 1574. Caniple, O. E. A small knife or (akin to San-scrit 9VAN, Gr. Kvaiv).A dog. This termhas numerous dimi-nutives : catulus, catel-his, ca7iic2ila. How-ever ancient any civi-lization, the dog isalways met with asthe companion ofman, and in each na-tion it follows a par-ticular type. Thus adistinct difference isperceptible in the dogsof the Etruscans,Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Indians,and Gauls. TheEgyptians had ter-riers and gi-eyhounds,wolf-dogs, and othersfor hunting or watch-dogs. All these breedsare met with on thebas-reliefs of Egyptianmonuments. The Egyptian name for adog, 7V011, ivoiiivoii, is evidently onomatopoieticor imitative. (See also Doc.;.) Canistrum, Canister, or Caneum {Kavia-rpov,from Kavt], a reed). A wide shallow basket forcarrying the instruments of sacrifice and offer-ings for the gods. It was generally carried onthe head by young girls, who were called Cane-pJioitc (Kavr^cpopat, i. e. basket-bearers), q. v. Ca
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