A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 169
ARTS. 157 name and initials of their owner. The bronze label (No. 455), towhich a portion of the iron object to which it was attached stilladheres, has the name of the owner, C. Junius Hermetus, inscribedupon it. A second label has the name of another member of thefamily, Decius Junius Hermetus… … Fig. 193.—Roman Cutlers Shop (No. 458). Ht. 19£in. employed for purely personal purposes, such as the sealing of a letteror document, and the device of the seal was more or less ornamental.For the somewhat allied group of bronze tablets, used for markingobjects, rather than securing them, see p.…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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