Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum / by H.B. Walters.

British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

Date:: 1899

Credit: Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum / by H.B. Walters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$323. Part of Strigil. The handle has been fixed to the back, as No. 320, and terminates in an ivy-leaf. On it is stamped a cow to r., suckling a calf to 1. Inscribed : 5»OTEP, 'Scoz^p. Length 6f in. Millingen Coll., 1836. Archaeologia, xliii. p. 258. For the cow suckling the calf, compare the coins of Dyrrhachium. 324. Chisel (?). Inscribed : nqQAOAAOHA, ’ATroWoBcopw. Length 3! in. Hungary (?), 1868. For the inscription, which also occurs on strigils, cf. Archaeologia, xliii. p. 258 ; Babelon and Blanchct, Bronzes de la Bibl. Nationals, No. 1809 ; and Schumacher, Samuil. Ant. Bronzen zu Karlsruhe, No. 215. 325. Handle of Strigil, inscribed PAP^YMMAXOY, 7rapfa) %vp,pLagov. The name is probably that of the maker. Length 5 in. From Ruvo. Bequeathed by Sir W. Temple, 1856. Archaeologia, xliii. p. 258. 326. Handle of Strigil, inscribed TPlAkATIDNA0AON, Tpiatcariwy a6\ov. Length 3^ in. Cyrenaica, 1866. Archaeologia, xliii. p. 258. The tpicikcitiol were the ephebi belonging to a rpiaicd? (for which see Liddell and Scott, s.v.) ; cf. Smith and Porcher, Cyrene, pis. 78, 1. 14, and 79, 1. 7. 327. Model of an Altar, rising in four steps ; on the top is inscribed AlOZ, A to?, i.e. “ [the altar] of Zeus.” Ht. 2 in. Width 3f x 3f in. 1885. 328. Stamp. The stem ends in a conical knob, and the stamp is in the form of a disc, on which is incised KAAOZ. /ca\os. Length in. Castellani, 1873. 329-332. DICASTS’ TICKETS (See, for the subject generally, Ephem. Archaeol. 1863, pt. 12, p. 304; Revue Archeol. xvii. (1868), p. 140; and Rhein. Mus. xxxi. 1876, p. 283). 329. Dicast’s Ticket. Inscribed: r a/5\mey^ Aerna?AAateu?, of the third section of dicasts. The ticket is stamped with (1) an owl within olive-wreath ; (2) two owls with one head * ; (3) a Gorgoneion ; as symbolical of the Athenian people. Halae was a subdivision of the tribe Cecropis. 4} in. x £ in. Obtained in Athens, 1809. Burgon Coll. 674. Hicks, Manual of Hist. Inscrs. p. 202 ; C. 1. Gr. 208 ; Dodwell, Classical Tour, i. p. 437 ; Bull, de Corr. Hell. ii. (1878), p. 536, No. 30. Broken in two. 330. Dicast’s Ticket. Inscribed: E ^/mhhey^ ^PXl^°X0<i ^aXypev^, of the fifth section. Phaleron was a subdivision of the tribe Antiochis. 3! X | in. Athens, 1865. Hicks, Manual of Hist. Inscrs., p. 202. * Compare Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins of Attica, pi. 6, fig. 6 (a bronze coin of about 400 lt.C.). E$