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History of ancient pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905)

Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · New York, Scribner · leaf 397

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mpared with the countermarks orsmall adjuncts on the coins of the Republic, and the seals andstamps on the wine-amphorae of Thasos (Vol. I. p. 158). Figuresof gods, such as Mars, Cupid, and Victory, animals, and evengroups of figures, occur, and after the third century Christianemblems are often… … cases of canting or punning allusions. Thus M. Rutilius Lupushas a wolf; Flavius Aper a boar; Aquilia an eagle; C. JuliusStephanus a wreath ; and Aelius Asclepiades a serpent, withreference to the god Asklepios. The most complete stamps have the date of the emperor or . ., the consulship, the name…

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