A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 52
libations is supported on a pine-cone.Akin to these is the small limestone cone and altar from the Cyrenaica. No. 88 (fig. 30) is a bronze representing an attendant leadinga pig to sacrifice. The pig (as well as the sheep and the bull)was a favourite sacrificial animal among the Eomans. At the… … Fig. 30.—Attendant Driving Pig toSacrifice (No. 88). Ht. 4 in. as their special victims. In Case 105 will be seen a terracottavotive pig (No. 89) found in the precinct of Demeter and Perse-phone at Knidos. In Case 98 is an elaborate model in terracotta of a temple laverfrom Cyprus (No. 90). In Case…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
