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PLATE XXIX.
FISHERMAN.
A small statue of a Fisherman. He is standing with his right
leg advanced, near the stump of a tree on which is placed his
wicker basket,1 containing fish, apparently, an eel, two oysters and
sundry small fish. His only clothing consists of a tunic, with
short sleeves. It is open on the right side, and fastened in a knot
upon the right shoulder; the arm has been withdrawn from the
left sleeve which hangs down in front, leaving the breast and
shoulder exposed; this tunic is short, descending only half way
down the thighs, and is bound round the body with a leathern
thong, the ends only of which are visible beneath the overhanging
folds. It is composed probably of the skin of a sheep with the
wool left in short shaggy tufts, or perhaps of some extremely warm
woollen manufacture. It resembles in form the colobium, which
however was probably of some more delicate material, and would
not have been worn by these fishermen whom we must suppose
to have been slaves;2 it appears rather to be such a shaggy chiton
as the Sileni are described as Avearing, Dionys. Antiq. vii. 72, ^Kzvai
1 Serpicula piscaria seems to be the name given by the Romans to these fish
baskets. Plautus, Captiv. Act. iv. sc. 2. v. 36. Visconti, Mus. Pio Clement. III. 33.
seems to think it not improbable that small statues of fishermen of a similar descrip-
tion were placed on the banks of fishponds or stews, of which, towards the close of the
Republic, the rich Romans had become so enamoured that they were styled by Cicero,
Ep. ad Att. 1, 20, piscinarii.
2 Et sexus omnis et condicio toga utebantur, sed servi nec colobia nec calceos ha-
bebant, Serv. iEn. I. 282. It is observable that the feet of the preceding statue are
bare; as is the case with this figure also, but the legs have been restored.
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PLATE XXIX.
FISHERMAN.
A small statue of a Fisherman. He is standing with his right
leg advanced, near the stump of a tree on which is placed his
wicker basket,1 containing fish, apparently, an eel, two oysters and
sundry small fish. His only clothing consists of a tunic, with
short sleeves. It is open on the right side, and fastened in a knot
upon the right shoulder; the arm has been withdrawn from the
left sleeve which hangs down in front, leaving the breast and
shoulder exposed; this tunic is short, descending only half way
down the thighs, and is bound round the body with a leathern
thong, the ends only of which are visible beneath the overhanging
folds. It is composed probably of the skin of a sheep with the
wool left in short shaggy tufts, or perhaps of some extremely warm
woollen manufacture. It resembles in form the colobium, which
however was probably of some more delicate material, and would
not have been worn by these fishermen whom we must suppose
to have been slaves;2 it appears rather to be such a shaggy chiton
as the Sileni are described as Avearing, Dionys. Antiq. vii. 72, ^Kzvai
1 Serpicula piscaria seems to be the name given by the Romans to these fish
baskets. Plautus, Captiv. Act. iv. sc. 2. v. 36. Visconti, Mus. Pio Clement. III. 33.
seems to think it not improbable that small statues of fishermen of a similar descrip-
tion were placed on the banks of fishponds or stews, of which, towards the close of the
Republic, the rich Romans had become so enamoured that they were styled by Cicero,
Ep. ad Att. 1, 20, piscinarii.
2 Et sexus omnis et condicio toga utebantur, sed servi nec colobia nec calceos ha-
bebant, Serv. iEn. I. 282. It is observable that the feet of the preceding statue are
bare; as is the case with this figure also, but the legs have been restored.