A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 54
instance. A series of implements terminating in a hand bent at the knuckles(No. 93), and a pair of tongs on wheels (No. 94), are probablymeant for manipulating embers. Miscellaneous.—A small silver model of a temple key is shownin Case 100. The small alabaster statuette of a goddess with… … Fig. 32.—The Dioscuri coming to the Theoxenia (No. 98). her votaries. A jar (No. 96) contained perhaps the honey syrup,used in Egypt for feeding the sacred crocodiles. Beligions Bites.—Prayer.—The fifth century kylix (No. 97)shows the gesture of the raised right hand, often used in prayer.The young…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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