A Guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museumorder of the Trustees, 1908 - 256 pages |
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British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. PREFACE . In this Exhibition an attempt has been made to bring together a number of miscellaneous antiquities which hitherto have been scattered through the Department , in such ...
British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. PREFACE . In this Exhibition an attempt has been made to bring together a number of miscellaneous antiquities which hitherto have been scattered through the Department , in such ...
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... Greek and Roman currencies extend over a period of just one thousand years , in the course of which the coinage went through all the developments and anticipated all the varieties of type and fabric which it has since experienced ...
... Greek and Roman currencies extend over a period of just one thousand years , in the course of which the coinage went through all the developments and anticipated all the varieties of type and fabric which it has since experienced ...
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... Greek world of a series of state coinages . The convenience of the " invention " was so obvious as to justify the statement of Herodotus that the Lydians were the first nation of shopkeepers . ' Diog . Laert . i . § 57 . The example ...
... Greek world of a series of state coinages . The convenience of the " invention " was so obvious as to justify the statement of Herodotus that the Lydians were the first nation of shopkeepers . ' Diog . Laert . i . § 57 . The example ...
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British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. issues , and in the absence of a genuine state currency , commercial transactions were effected by means of scales . It is doubtless due to the fact that a ... GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE .
British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. issues , and in the absence of a genuine state currency , commercial transactions were effected by means of scales . It is doubtless due to the fact that a ... GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE .
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British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. ( No. 70 ) dedicated to Zeus Lykaeos ( Zeus " the wolf - god " ) by Trygon ; and the elaborate axe - head ( No. 71 ; fig . 22 ) , found in Calabria , which ... GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE .
British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. ( No. 70 ) dedicated to Zeus Lykaeos ( Zeus " the wolf - god " ) by Trygon ; and the elaborate axe - head ( No. 71 ; fig . 22 ) , found in Calabria , which ... GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE .
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Abydos Amen-hetep ancient armour arms Athens body British Museum bronze called Central Saloon ceremonies character chariot chiton coinage coins colours contains Coptic Cyprus dead decorated dedicated early Egypt Enkomi Etruscan examples exhibited FIBULA fifth century figure fourth century B.C. Fourth Egyptian Room gladiators goddess gods gold granite Greece Greek Greek and Roman Hathor head helmet hieroglyphics Horus illustrated inscribed inscription ivory king lamp mastaba Memphis mentioned Meroë metal monuments mummy Mycenaean Napata Naukratis Nile Nubia objects Osiris painted Papyrus pieces Plate Pompeii priests probably Ptolemy pyramid Rameses Rameses II reign relief represented Rome scribe seen Sepulchral tablet shows shrine side silver sixth century B.C. Southern Egyptian Gallery statue statuette stelae stele stone strigil Sûdân Table-case temple terracotta Thebes Third Egyptian Room Thoth tomb Usertsen Vase Room votive Wall-case weight XVIIIth dynasty καὶ
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Page 80 - LORD, the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. 4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 44 - Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
Page 93 - And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
Page 44 - And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself.
Page 254 - ... thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life...
Page 51 - I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and a boat to the shipwrecked
Page 123 - Cupid, is supposed to represent Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus in the presence of Poseidon. That on the reverse, with a sleeping figure and two others, is supposed to be Peleus watching his bride Thetis asleep, while Aphrodite presides over the scene.
Page 42 - ... and the one in front does not in reality project more than the one behind it, yet, by mere drawing,* you see the sculptor has got them to appear to recede in due order, and by the soft rounding of the flesh surfaces, and modulation of the veins, he has taken away all look of flatness from the necks. He has drawn the eyes and nostrils with dark incision, careful as the finest touches of a painter's pencil : and then, at last, when he comes to the manes, he has let fly hand and chisel with their...
Page 131 - When thou art grown up, and hast taken to thcc a wife, being master of thy house, cast thine eyes on her who gave thee birth and provided thee with all good things, as did thy mother. Let her not reproach thee, lest she lift up her hands to God...
Page 75 - Love her tenderly and fulfill all her desires as long as thou hast thy life, for she is an estate which conferreth great reward upon her lord. Be not harsh to her, for she will be more easily moved by per-suasion than by force. Take thou heed to that which 'Erman, A.: ^gypten, etc., 224.