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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 475

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useum (Fig. 65). The names of theslaves employed are generally Greek or Oriental; it is to be notedthat the most cunning of the craftsmen who worked for Perennius—Tigranes and Bargates—bear names which point to Asia Minor,the home of the Toreutic industry whose products furnished thepotters with… … Fig. 65. Arretine bowl from the workshop of Perennius. decoration of the first is made up of single types—especiallySatyrs, Maenads, &c, from the rout of Bacchus, figures of Seasons,Muses, or dancing priestesses, &c—repeated without inner signi-ficance ; we are familiar with them on the…

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