A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 207
ould produce a movement of the armsand legs, and explain the term vevpoa-n-aaTa ( drawn by strings )applied to these dolls. In Xenophons Symposium a travelling show-man speaks of being kept by the profits drawn from such puppets.1One, holding castanets, is illustrated here (fig. 232 ; No. 593).… … Fig. 234.—Seated Dole, with Marriage-Bowl, Epinetron and Shoes (No. 599). Ca. 1:2. clay in the form of all kinds of animals destined for the beguiling oflittle children. Such a figure is that of the donkey with a sea-perchtied on its back (No. 594) or the fascinating groujD of the littleboy on the…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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