Combe, Taylor [Hrsg.]; Towneley, Charles [Samml.]: A description of the collection of ancient terracottas in the British Museum: with engravings (London, 1810)

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No. XXXIX.

A wine vessel, probably the Roman urna,(i) which contained half
the quantity of the amphora. It holds twenty-four ale pints.
Height 3 feet § inch. It formerly belonged to Sir Hans. Sloane.

No. XL. ■

A statue of a Muse, the head of which is lost. She is resting her
left arm upon a pile of writing tablets, which are placed upon a
square column. The right arm is raised towards the neck. The
statue, in its present state, is 3 feet 5 inches high.

No. XLI.

A wine vessel, which, as well as No. XXXIX. is probably a Roman
urna. It holds twenty-six ale pints. Height 2 feet 11 inches. It
formerly belonged to Sir Hans Sloane.

No. XLII.

A bas-relief, representing a short naked human figure, with a
beard; he holds in each hand the stem of a plant. On each side
of this figure is seated a quadruped, whose head is that of an
elderly man, and whose tail terminates in a flower. The subject of
this bas-relief, as well as of two others, No. XXXV. and No.
XXXVI. which have been already described, is undoubtedly Egyp-
tian, although the execution is Roman. The figure holding the
stem of a plant in each hand, is Osiris, who, according to the
Grecian mythology, was considered as the Egyptian Bacchus. (2)

1 Hujus dimidium fert urna.—Rhemnius Fannius de Pond, et Mens.
1 "On-iptf Si £fi Atoi/uo-of X.XT 'ExxdSx yXucrcroiv.—Herodotus, lib. ii. c. 144.
Twv Si iraf "EAAn<n wtuhoaw pvSoXoyuv -rm? rov 0<n/iu< Aioi/vtrov iwovopdZpcn. Diod.
Sic. lib. i. c. 11.