History of ancient pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Based on the work of Samuel Birch (1905)
Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp), 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885. History of ancient pottery · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 386
3 thus rendering the roof compact, were quite plain, with the excep¬ tion of the end ones over the gutters. These were in the form of antefixal ornaments like the Greek examples (Vol. I. p. 98), an upright semi-oval termination ornamented with a relief or painted pattern, with an arched support at… … symbol of Augustus)2 FIG- I9I *- roman terracotta antefix: victory ^ & ' WITH TROPHY (BRITISH MUSEUM). No better example of the various uses of ornamental tiles in architecture can be selected than the remains found at Pompeii, which are exceed¬ ingly numerous. Terracotta seems to have been used…
Pottery, Greek · Pottery, Etruscan · Mythology, Classical, in art · Pottery, Ancient
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