ig. 64, is a much more ambitious work of art. The cmhlema,which weighed 75 Koman ounces, while the phiala weighed2 lb. 2^ ounces, was at first thought to be an allegorical figureof the city of Alexandria, and thus to furnish confirmation of thetheory which traced the origins of Koman caelatiira to… … Fig. 63, Goblet from Bosco Reale. the conventional representations of Alexandria are quite different.The figure was gilded, and as the ears are pierced, it must haveworn earrings which are now lost ; we read in an inscription of agolden figure of the town of Noreia (Klagenfurt) w^hich adorneda…
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