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WALL CASES 32-41.
EOMAN TEEEACOTTA MUEAL EELIEFS.
This class of terracottas has been found in excava-
tions at Rome, at Tusculuru, and in various tombs
and villas in the Campagna. They appear to have been
employed as friezes, having been attached by leaden
clamps to the walls of temples, tombs, and other buildings,
for the most part probably as internal decorations.
The reliefs on these slabs have been impressed from a
mould, and afterwards retouched. They generally repre-
sent a composition with two or three figures in the same
plane. The subjects are, for the most part, taken from
Greek mythology, but the art is evidently of the Eoman
period, and the greater part of these terracottas were
probably executed by Greek artists of the Augustan age,
working under Eoman influence. The largest of the slabs
average 1 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. in height, the smaller ones
1 ft, 6 in. by 10 in.
The finest extant collection of this class of terracottas
is that in the Campana Museum in the Louvre. The
collection in the British Museum was nearly all formed
by Mr. Towneley.
Among the most interesting subjects in this collection
are the following :—
(Case 37). A Satyr and a Msenad, tossing the infant
Bacchus in a cradle, lihnon. Museum Terracottas, pi. xxiv.
fig. 44.
(Case 41). Bacchus received as a guest by Icarius,
who is reclining on a couch, at the foot of which is seated
his daughter Erigone. This composition is treated on a
more extended scale on a marble relief in the Grasco-
Eoman Gallery. See Guide to Grasco-Eoman Sculptures,
Part I. No. 176. M. T. pi. xxv. No. 47.
(Case 38). Bacchus embracing Cupid, before whom
a Meenad is dancing and playing on the tambourine.
M. T. pi. v. No. 6.
(Case 33). Aphrodite, riding on a swan. M. T.
pi. xxxv. No. 72.
(Case 39). Argus building the ship Argo, assisted by
Athene and Tiphys, who fix the sail to the yard. M. T.
pi. x. No. 16.
WALL CASES 32-41.
EOMAN TEEEACOTTA MUEAL EELIEFS.
This class of terracottas has been found in excava-
tions at Rome, at Tusculuru, and in various tombs
and villas in the Campagna. They appear to have been
employed as friezes, having been attached by leaden
clamps to the walls of temples, tombs, and other buildings,
for the most part probably as internal decorations.
The reliefs on these slabs have been impressed from a
mould, and afterwards retouched. They generally repre-
sent a composition with two or three figures in the same
plane. The subjects are, for the most part, taken from
Greek mythology, but the art is evidently of the Eoman
period, and the greater part of these terracottas were
probably executed by Greek artists of the Augustan age,
working under Eoman influence. The largest of the slabs
average 1 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. in height, the smaller ones
1 ft, 6 in. by 10 in.
The finest extant collection of this class of terracottas
is that in the Campana Museum in the Louvre. The
collection in the British Museum was nearly all formed
by Mr. Towneley.
Among the most interesting subjects in this collection
are the following :—
(Case 37). A Satyr and a Msenad, tossing the infant
Bacchus in a cradle, lihnon. Museum Terracottas, pi. xxiv.
fig. 44.
(Case 41). Bacchus received as a guest by Icarius,
who is reclining on a couch, at the foot of which is seated
his daughter Erigone. This composition is treated on a
more extended scale on a marble relief in the Grasco-
Eoman Gallery. See Guide to Grasco-Eoman Sculptures,
Part I. No. 176. M. T. pi. xxv. No. 47.
(Case 38). Bacchus embracing Cupid, before whom
a Meenad is dancing and playing on the tambourine.
M. T. pi. v. No. 6.
(Case 33). Aphrodite, riding on a swan. M. T.
pi. xxxv. No. 72.
(Case 39). Argus building the ship Argo, assisted by
Athene and Tiphys, who fix the sail to the yard. M. T.
pi. x. No. 16.