An Attic Dinos in the British Museum

1926 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Iliffe
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
The Third

B.M. B46. The catalogue describes this vase thus:—Acquired 1867: Blacas Coll. Dinos. Ht. 13 in. Diam. 12½ in. Slightly restored, imperfectly fired. Around rim, chain of lotus and buds; on shoulder, tongue-pattern. Two friezes: above, banquet scene, of seven couches, on each of which two male banqueters; between the two end couches, group of five servants, in attendance on the banqueters; below, animal frieze. Beneath this a broad zone of black, and on bottom, polypus pattern.The principal scene shows a series of seven couches, on each of which recline two bearded male figures, facing to 1.; seven of them wear wreaths. Alongside each couch stands a table, bearing viands for the banquet. From 1. to r., the first, fourth, sixth, tenth and thirteenth hold out phialae in varying attitudes; the third, eleventh and fourteenth hold out kerata, in the act of drinking, or to have them refilled, while the seventh and eighth also have each a keras; the fifth holds out a kantharos; the twelfth raises an apparently empty r. hand; the second also raises his r. hand, but the object he holds is hidden by the first figure; the ninth plays the double flute.

Livy's Fourth Decade:A Preliminary Enquiry into the Evidence of MSS

1927 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Third

A summary view of the main evidence at our disposal may be soon obtained. Three traditions appear at the outset. The first depends on a MS. once at Mainz, and now no longer extant, but of which part, at any rate, still existed in the sixteenth century; the second on an eleventh century MS. at Bamberg; and the third on a number of later MSS. in Rome, Florence, Paris, the British Museum, Oxford, Holkham, and other places. The fact that (at any rate for preliminary investigation) these three traditions must be regarded as separate may be seen first from the parts of the decade which they each omit.

The Runic Inscription on the Isle of Wight Sword

PMLA ◽  
1903 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-98
Author(s):  
George Hempl
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
The Third ◽  
Supernatural Power

On page 459 of the third volume of his Old Northern Runic Monuments, and on page 245 of his Handbook, Stephens gave a cut of an Anglo-Saxon sword found on the Isle of Wight and now in the British Museum, Of this he wrote the following facts and fancies: “Found about the middle of this century in an Old English grave. But the runes were first seen in 1882 by Aug. W. Franks, Esq., the Director. . . . The runes are on the inner side of the silver scabbard-mount, and were only seen lately when the piece was cleaned. Hence their perfect preservation, tho so slightly cut-in. They have been hidden for some 1300 winters! . . . In this case the owner had cut this spell, singing therewith some chaunt of supernatural power, to overcome the easier his unsuspecting enemy. All such witchcraft and amulet-bearing etc. was strictly forbidden. Whatever the staves mean, this is the only such secret rune-risting yet found.” Stephens' rendering is, as usual, quite worthless: “? Awe (terror, death and destruction) to-the-seve (brynie, armor, weapons, of the foe)!”

An Attic Cistern Front at the British Museum

1928 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
W. R. Lethaby
Keyword(s):  
Original Work ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Central Group ◽  
Large Crater ◽  
The Third ◽  
Water Trough ◽  
Herodes Atticus

In the Third Graeco-Roman Room is a long relief, numbered 2154 and entitled a Votive Relief. It is described in the catalogue (1904) as ‘Relief, perhaps votive, with Dionysos receiving a libation. The central group consists of Dionysos and a Maenad…. Behind the Maenad a large crater stands on the ground…. A moulding appears to have been tooled away above…. May be as early as the end of the fourth century. Athens: Elgin Collection. Height 2 feet 7 inches; length 5 feet 8 inches. Found among the ruins of the theatre of Herodes Atticus. Formerly in the possession of N. Logotheti. Stuart, ii, pp. 23, 45.…’Close to the ‘crater’ a hole about an inch in diameter has been carefully bored through the marble—so carefully that the presumption is that it is part of the original work, although it is suppressed in the old illustrations and is not mentioned in the descriptions. On looking behind the relief it at once appears that material at the two ends and the bottom has been cut away. The remnants of the parts which have been cut off suggest the two ends and bottom of a water trough or cistern. The hole mentioned above is situated an inch or so above what remains of the bottom, and thus conforms to the general tradition of stone water troughs such as several of granite which I have recently seen in Dartmoor farm-yards. From these evidences and the appropriate size it may not be doubted that the relief is the front of a water cistern.

Some Knossian Coins of Augustus

1975 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
R. H. J. Ashton
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Museum Specimen ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Line ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Extended Discussion ◽  
Final Letter

The following rare issue of bronze coins has been ignored or misattributed by previous writers:Obverse: bare head of Augustus r.; behind head, AVGVS; border of dots.Reverse: within an olive wreath, or .The details of only five specimens, from one obverse die and two reverse dies, are available to me.The only extended discussion of this issue is in Grant, FITA 276–7, which was based solely on the Gotha coin and on a coin in the British Museum. The latter was not illustrated, but was most likely coin 2c, the Seager coin, which was an accession in 1926: 2b was an accession in 1948, two years after the publication of FITA, and nine years after the completion of its manuscript. Grant read the reverse legend of the Gotha coin as , noting that on the British Museum specimen the VE was not ligatured. But Grant's photograph of the Gotha coin, which is the only available record, yields under close examination no certain reading for the final letter of the third line: it could be D, O, or Q. There are, moreover, traces of only one letter on the fourth line, and again it is uncertain whether this is D, O, or Q (it looks in fact more like D than anything else).

scholarly journals XVII. Two Extracts from a Manuscript Copy of Hardyng's Chronicle, among the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum; communicated by Henry Ellis, Esq. F.A.S. in a Letter to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Secretary

Archaeologia ◽  
1812 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
Henry Ellis
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
John Of Gaunt ◽  
Manuscript Copy

Observing some curious particulars in the first volume of the Archaeologia relating to Hardyng the historian, I am induced to send you two short extracts from a copy of his rhyming Chronicle among the Harleian Manuscripts in the Museum. One of these little transcripts preserves the Letter of Defiance which the insurgent lords sent to Henry the Fourth, immediately before the battle of Shrewsbury. The other relates to the spurious Chronicle said to have been forged by John of Gaunt, in which Edmund Crouchback was made the eldest son of king Henry the Third.

Some Sumerian Tablets of the Third Dynasty of Ur

1939 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
T. Fish
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Dynasty Of Ur ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The tablets published here for the first time belong to the British Museum and to the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. I am indebted to Mr. Sidney Smith for permission to publish the British Museum tablets and to Dr. L. Legrain for permission to publish the tablet in the Pennsylvania University Museum.

Whip-tops

1929 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-219
Author(s):  
Cecil Harcourt-Smith
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
The Third

In the British Museum there are two fifth-century Attic vases (Nos. D 9 and D 10) of bee-hive shape (Fig. 1), of which the decoration consists of a series of mouldings alternately red, white, and black, with a black rim; the interior is white, also with a black rim. In their general style, their technique, and their decoration they are very similar to another vase of the same collection, D 8, a phiale mesomphalos, which bears the signature of the potter Sotades. All three vases were in the Branteghem Collection, and were described by Froehner, in his Catalogue of that Collection, under Nos. 160–162.In the third volume of the Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum I described these vases, D 9 and D 10, as ‘Mastoi’; this is a form which, of course, owes its name to the pretty fancy which derives it from the model of Aphrodite's breast, and so was a favourite form of dedication in her temple at Paphos.

scholarly journals The Crucifixion on a Greek Gem

1897 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
Cecil Smith
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Third ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
Real Importance ◽  
Actual Size

The gem of which an engraving (in twice the actual size) is here given is a carnelian intaglio, which I found in a private collection in London in 1895. The owner, a Greek lady, resident in London, brought it to me with a bagful of similar gems, all of which had been in her possession from childhood. It appears that as a child she lived with her family at Constanza (Kustendje), and that the children playing on the beach there used frequently to find and make collections of Greek gems washed up by the sea or lying among the sand and pebbles. Her collection comprised some thirty or forty, all of which undoubtedly date from the first to the third century A.D.; but this was the only one of real importance; it was bought on my representation by Sir A. W. Franks and presented to the British Museum, where it is now exhibited among the Christian antiquities.

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