Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 318
olemus. It is an alabastron, or tall perfume jar, with narrowneck, five inches high by two in the greatest diameter. Its styleis supposed to indicate the age of the Antonines. It originallybelonged to the Gonzaga family but was stolen at the sacking ofMantua, in 1630, by a soldier, who sold it for… … IHE TWO-HANDLED CUP OF ST. DEXVS. tioned by Pliny : Pompey was the first who introduced murrhinevases at Rome. He being the first to dedicate, at the conclusionof his triumph, vases and cups made of this material, in the templeof Jupiter Capitolinus, a circumstance which soon brought theminto…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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