Note 9 — PART I

No example of a running line has ever been produced from either ancient literature or ancient art, but on the other hand numerous illustrations of the tight line on vases, frescoes, mosaics, etc., are extant. To the examples collected by G. Lafaye in Daremberg and Saglio, Dict. des antiquités, iv. 489, ff. s.v. ‘piscatio,’ can be added: (a) Ivory relief from Sparta, seventh century b.c., published by R. M. Dawkins in the Annual Report of the Brit. School at Athens, 1906-7, xiii. 100, ff., pl. 4. (b) Black figured lekythos from Hope Collection (Sale Cat. No. 22), published by E. M. W. Tillyard in Essays and Studies presented to W. Ridgeway, Cambridge, 1913, edited by E. C. Quiggin, p. 186, ff. with plate. (c) Græco-Roman gem in A. Furtwängler, Beschreibung der geschnittenen Steine im Antiquarium (zu Berlin), Berlin, 1896, p. 257, No. 6898, pl. 51. Cf. the same author, Die Antiken Gemmen, Leipzig-Berlin, 1900, i. pl. 28, 25, and pl. 36, 5; ii. 140 and 174. A. H. Smith, Cat. of Engraved Gems in the Brit. Museum, London, 1888, p. 191, Nos. 1797-99, and p. 206, No. 2043. (d) Coins of Carteia in Spain, well represented by A. Heiss, Description générale des Monnaies antiques de l’Espagne, Paris, 1870, p. 331 f., pl. 49, 19-21. (e) Mosaic in Melos, see R. C. Bosanquet in the Jour. of Hell. Studies, 1898, xviii. 71 ff., pl. 1. (f) Silver krater from Hildesheim shows Cupids with fishing rods and tridents catching all sorts of sea-beasties. E. Pernice and F. Winter, Der Hildesheimer Silberfund, Berlin, 1901, pls. 32, 33. Cf. S. Reinach, Répertoire de Reliefs grecs et romains, Paris, 1909, i. 165 f. (g) H. B. Walters, Cat. of Greek and Roman Lamps in the Brit. Museum, London, 1914, p. 79 f., No. 527, Pl. 16, p. 99 f.; No. 656, pl. 22, p. 96, No. 635. The accompanying illustration is reproduced by kind permission of Mr. E. M. W. Tillyard and of the University Press, Cambridge.