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EXCAVATIONS ON SEVERAL SITES—BUDRTJM. 327
On recommencing the excavations at a few feet to
the north of the first digging, I came upon a great
quantity of small plain Roman lamps, of red un-
glazed earth. They were lying in layers so thick
that the workmen threw them out by shovelfuls.
About half a mule-load were discovered altogether:
it is remarkable that the specimens present little
variety.
I next proceeded to trace out the lines of foun-
dations (see Plate XLV.), in the course of which
operation I continued to discover veins or layers of
terracotta figures, generally lying along the side of
the foundations. These, like the lamps, seem to
have been assorted like articles in a shop, many
specimens of the same type occurring together;
they were lying in the earth, immediately over the
bed of clay, without any protection. On looking
over the whole mass, the following varieties of type
presented themselves:—
Archaic types:—
1. Aphrodite wearing a talaric chiton, with an
upper garment falling nearly to the knees in front,
and halfway down to the calf on the left side. In
her rierht hand she holds a dove on her breast: her
left holds the edge of her upper garment : the hair
is drawn close to the head. (Plate XLVII. fig. 2.)
2. A similar figure, the left arm hanging down
under the drapery.
3. Pemale figure in a talaric chiton, with a
joeptos drawn across the body, so as to leave the
right breast exposed; her right hand raised; in
her left, a round object, perhaps an apple or pome-
On recommencing the excavations at a few feet to
the north of the first digging, I came upon a great
quantity of small plain Roman lamps, of red un-
glazed earth. They were lying in layers so thick
that the workmen threw them out by shovelfuls.
About half a mule-load were discovered altogether:
it is remarkable that the specimens present little
variety.
I next proceeded to trace out the lines of foun-
dations (see Plate XLV.), in the course of which
operation I continued to discover veins or layers of
terracotta figures, generally lying along the side of
the foundations. These, like the lamps, seem to
have been assorted like articles in a shop, many
specimens of the same type occurring together;
they were lying in the earth, immediately over the
bed of clay, without any protection. On looking
over the whole mass, the following varieties of type
presented themselves:—
Archaic types:—
1. Aphrodite wearing a talaric chiton, with an
upper garment falling nearly to the knees in front,
and halfway down to the calf on the left side. In
her rierht hand she holds a dove on her breast: her
left holds the edge of her upper garment : the hair
is drawn close to the head. (Plate XLVII. fig. 2.)
2. A similar figure, the left arm hanging down
under the drapery.
3. Pemale figure in a talaric chiton, with a
joeptos drawn across the body, so as to leave the
right breast exposed; her right hand raised; in
her left, a round object, perhaps an apple or pome-