A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 187
branches on oppositesides, one forming the share, the other the handle. This was the Suet., Ner. 30. AGRICULTURE. L75 plough in one piece spoken of by Hesiod. The Mycenaean plough-share belongs to a later development, when the plough is madeup of several parts, the joined plough of Homer and… … Fig. 209.—Bronze Votive Plough. directions. A black-figured vase of the sixth century, here exhibited(No. 514), shows the later plough in a simple form, which haschanged but little for many centuries, as may still be observedin the East. The different parts can be seen more clearly from abronze…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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