A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 234
hese remarkable masks are covered with inciseddesigns, most likely of magic significance, intended to avert evilfrom the dead. A separate half-mask (No. 680) of this type is ex-hibited here, and another will be found with the objects illustratingsuperstition in Case 106. In these masks we can see… … Fig. 259.—Italian Hot-Urn (No. 675).Ca. 1:4. METHODS OF BURIAL. 22:; portrait is again found on the lid of the sixth-century Etruscanfuneral urn (No. 681 ; fig. 262) in Case 59. Here a draped womanlies on a couch of elaborateform, decorated below with arelief of two lions devouring abull. A kindred…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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