A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 55
o left or vice versa, and the raising orlowering of the birds wing. Shrines.—In Cases 100, 101 a series of terracotta shrines isexhibited. They were doubtless for household use, employed inmuch the same way as modern images of the Madonna. No. 104(fig. 33), from the early Greek settlement of… … Fig. 33.—Aphrodite withina Shrine (No. 104). >Ht.2A in. 44 GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE. semi-Egyptian in character, and shows a deity surmounted by awinged solar disk. Another shrine from Naukratis (No. 106)contains the sacred Apis-bull of the Egyptians. No. 107 is anexample of a shrine containing a…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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