Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886 · London : Groombridge · leaf 211
strawberry; the former of which espe-cially shows that this pottery was, as Pliny says of theSamian ware, particularly intended for the service of thetable. The ivy-leaf, indeed, is almost the only ornamentof the plainer description of this red ware. Sometimes the SAMIAN WARE—FIGURE DECORATIONS.… … Animals of all kinds are found in abundance among theornaments of the Samian ware. Among these the boarwas a great favourite. For instance, a cup will be dividedinto compartments, in which figure alternately two boars,and a man confronting them with a spear. In a similarcompartment under arches, in…
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