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Cover Design: Adaptation of wall-painting in cubiculum from Boscoreale. Eighth Room.

Vignette on Title-page: Departure of a warrior, from a lekythos. Case G, Fifth Room.

Introduction

Head-band: Design from a Roman table in the cubiculum. Eighth Room xv

Tail-piece: Oscillum. Case 1 xvii

Chapter I

Head-band: Genii sacrificing, from an Arretine bowl. Case G, Eighth Room 3

1. Praying youth (?) 4

2. Man saluting a statue of Athena 5

3. Man carrying a pig to be sacrificed 3

4. Votive table 6

5. Votive plaque 6

6. Terracotta herm 7

7. Warriors making a treaty (?) 7

8. Charms of colored glass 7

9. Lar 8

10. Roman priest 9

11. Camillus 10

12. Statue of Cybele on its car 11

13. Sacrificial procession 11

14. Sistrum 12

Chapter II

Head-band: Plan of the theatre of Segesta, Redrawn from Laloux, L’Architecture grecque, p. 233, fig. 217 13

15. Tragic mask 14

16. Slave in Old Comedy 14

17. Theatre at Epidaurus 15

18. Actor of mimes 16

19. Actor in New Comedy 17

20. Comic actor as Herakles 17

Tail-piece: Terracotta mask of a Satyr. Case 1 18

Chapter III

Head-band: House of Sallust, redrawn from Mau-Kelsey, Pompeii, published by the Macmillan Company, p. 287, fig. 136 19

21. Roman wall-painting 20

22. Cubiculum 21

23. Mosaic picture 22

24. Old man seated on a klismos 23

25. Bronze cauldron 24

26. Greek table-ware of painted terracotta 25

27. Bronze patera 26

28. Bronze wine-jug 27

29. Bronze jug 27

30. Bronze beaker 27

31. Bronze ladle for wine 28

32. Bronze wine-strainer 28

33. Roman silver cup 29

34. Roman silver spoons 29

35. Bronze candelabrum 30

36. Bronze lamp on a stand 31

Tail-piece: Campanian plate for fish. Case Q, Sixth Room 31

Chapter IV

Head-band: Women working wool, from an epinetron. Case 2 32

37. Woman embroidering or making a net 32

38. Onos or epinetron 33

39. Woman carding wool 33

40. Embroidered clothing 34

41. Greek country-woman spinning 35

42. Baking bread in a primitive oven 36

43. Women winnowing and grinding corn 36

44. Women at a well-house in Athens 37

45. Marriage-vase 38

Tail-piece: Woman spinning, from a pyxis. Case A, Fourth Room 39

Chapter V

Head-band: Boys going to school, from a kylix. Case 3 40

46. Gold bulla 40

47. Old nurse holding a baby 41

48. Terracotta feeding bottle 41

49. Toy horse on wheels 42

50. Tomb lekythos. Child drawing a cart 42

51. Girls playing ball 43

52. Boy rolling a hoop 43

53. Women whipping tops 44

54. Stylus 44

55. Ephedrismos game 45

56. Boy with a writing tablet 45

57. Ink-pot 46

Tail-piece: Jointed terracotta doll. Case 3 46

Chapter VI

Head-band: Fibula. Gold Room 47

58. Diagram of Doric chiton, reproduced from British Museum, A Guide to the Exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman Life, 2d edition, fig. 129 47

59. Amazons in Men’s Ionic chitons, reproduced from Furtwängler und Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, I, pl. 82 48

60. Early chitons 49

61. Woman’s Doric chiton of the fifth century 50

62. Woman in Ionic chiton 51

63. Doric chiton without girdle 52

64. Terracotta statuette. Lady in himation and hat 53

65. Terracotta statuette. Lady in himation 53

66. Terracotta statuette. Man in riding-cloak and hat 53

67. Man’s chiton 54

68. Akropolis maiden in Ionic chiton and himation 55

69. Greek sandal 56

70. Greek jewelry 57

71. Women’s coiffures, reproduced from Abrahams, Greek Dress, fig. 45 58

72. Strigil 59

73. Razor 60

74. Alabastron 60

75. Aryballos 61

76. Glass bottle 61

77. Silver pyxis 62

78. Terracotta pyxis 62

79. Spatula 63

80. Dipping-rod 63

81. Greek mirror on a stand 64

82. Etruscan mirror 65

83. Greek mirror and cover 65

Tail-piece: Dionysos wearing the himation, from a krater. Case J, Fourth Room 67

Chapter VII

Head-band: Symposium, from a krater. Case X, Fourth Room 68

84. Symposium, reproduced from Furtwängler und Reichhold, I, pl. 73. 69

85. Kottabos-stand 70

86. Glass astragals 71

87. Girls playing with astragals 71

88. Youth with a lyre 72

89. Girl dancing and playing the castanets 72

90. Apollo with a kithara 73

91. Terracotta figurine. Woman dancing 74

92. Terracotta figurine. Woman dancing 75

Tail-piece: Girl dancing, from a kylix. Case G, Fifth Room 75

Chapter VIII

Head-band: Combat, from a kylix. Case K, Fourth Room 76

93. Greek foot-soldier, reproduced from Die Bronzen aus Dodona, pl. 11 76

94. Italic helmet 77

95. Italic helmet with metal crest 77

96. Cap-shaped helmet 77

97. “Jockey-cap” helmet 77

98. Corinthian helmet 77

99. Italic armored belt 78

100. Pair of greaves 78

101. Italic cuirass 79

102. Greek cuirass of the fifth century 80

103. Warrior carrying a shield 81

104. Persian fighting with a machaira 82

105. Javelin-head 83

106. Spear-head 83

107. Dagger-blade with hooked tang 83

108. Leaf-shaped dagger-blade 83

109. Bronze sword 83

110. Arrow-heads 84

111. Amazon with battle-axe and wicker shield 85

112. Lamp. Victory with a trophy 87

Tail-piece: Attic helmet. Case 4 88

Chapter IX

Head-band: Pankratiasts, from a skyphos. Case 4 89

113. Jumper with halteres 90

114. Diskos-thrower 91

115. Athlete throwing a javelin 92

116. Wrestlers 92

117. Scene from the pankration 93

118. Panathenaic amphora 94

119. Youth binding on a fillet 95

Tail-piece: Votive disk, redrawn from Jüthner, Die antiken Turngeräthe, p. 27, fig. 20 97

Chapter X

Head-band: Horsemen, from a krater. Case X, Fourth Room 98

120. Bronze chariot 99

121. Racing cars on Syracusan coins 100

122. Lamp. Scene from the circus 100

123. Panathenaic amphora. Chariot race 100

124. Bit used in training horses 102

125. Horse’s muzzle 102

126. Young horseman 103

127. Bronze bit 104

Tail-piece: Horseman, bronze statuette. Case B, Third Room 105

Chapter XI

Head-band: Gladiatorial combats, from a glass cup. Case 3 106

128. Samnite gladiator 107

129. Thracian gladiator 107

Tail-piece: Hoplomachus, from a terracotta lamp. Case 5 108

Chapter XII

Head-band: Roman steelyard. Case 1 109

130. Bronze farmyard group 110

131. Greek farmer ploughing 111

132. Terracotta model of a cart 112

133. Terracotta from Cyprus. Donkey with panniers 112

134. Donkeys carrying jars in panniers, 1922 113

135. Key. Early type 114

136. Lock-plate 114

137. Key. Later type 114

138. War-vessels. Vase painting 115

139. Terracotta boat 115

140. Gold-beater’s block 116

141. Unfinished pottery cup 117

142. Ancient mould and modern relief 117

143. Dikast’s ticket 118

144. Forked probe 119

145. Spatulae 119

Tail-piece: Terracotta goat. Case B2, Third Room 120

Chapter XIII

Head-band: Funeral scene from a dipylon vase. Case L, Second Room 121

146. Mourners at a bier. Terracotta relief 122

147. Poet on his bier (?). Terracotta plate 122

148. Dipylon vase 123

149. Athenian tomb lekythoi 124

150. Marble lekythos 125

151. Etruscan focolare 126

152. Monument of Sostrate 127

153. Etruscan urn for ashes 128

154. Etruscan urn 129

155. Etruscan urn 129

156. Roman grave monument 130

Tail-piece: Akroterion, Sculpture Gallery, No. 5A 131