A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 208
by her spinning instrument for the knee (see p. 145),her shoes, and marriage-bowl, was found in a tomb near Athens,probably of the fourth century B.C. The bowl is almost certainlythe Ae/^s ya/uKos, used by the bridal pair immediately aftermarriage. It is therefore not unreasonable to conclude that… … Fig. 235.—Terracotta Model Tops and Design prom Vase-Painting.(No. 600). Ht. of Model on right, 4| in. right of fig. 235. On the left of the figure is another form of Greekwhipping top (of terracotta, found in the sanctuary of the Kabeiriat Thebes), and in the centre a design from a vase, in which…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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