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332 EXCAVATIONS ON SEVERAL SITES—BUD RUM.
It is probable that these offerings were sorted
according to types, on being originally deposited. >
This order would of course be disturbed by the
fall of the vaulting, or by the iconoclastic zeal of
the early Christians. Hence so many of the same
type were met with.; a fact which it is difficult,
•otherwise, to explain, unless we suppose that the
vaulted building in which these terracottas were
found, was the magazine of their sale or manufac-
ture. I know, however, of no evidence in favour
of such a supposition, unless it be the statement
of Plutarch (Quasst. Rom. xxiii.) that at Rome
it was customary to sell articles used in funeral
rites, to. irgiog rag 'rafyag, in the temenos of Libitina,
a deity which, he adds, was held identical with
Aphrodite. It is supposed by a writer in Ger-
hard's "Archaol. Zeitung," 1848, p. 278, that
the sepulchral objects' alluded to by Plutarch in
this passage were terracottas.'
appellaremus, priscos Latinos flavissas dixisse." A little further
on he calls them " cellas quasdam et specus, quibus ajditui Capitolmi
uterentur ad custodienduni res veteres religiosas."
r ' In the Annali dell' Inst. Arched., Horn. ,1835, p. 50, is a
notice of a great discovery of terracotta figures at Psestum, which
took place about 1821. The greater part of these were figures
'of Persephone holding a pig. They were found in chambers near
the great temple. The author of the notice supposes that, from,
the immense quantity of these terracottas discovered, the site
where they were found was the place of their manufacture. Ger-
hard, Bullet, dell' Inst. Arch. Rom. 1829, p. 189, thinks that the
temple near which they were found was probably sacred" to
Demeter. See also Gerhard, Antike Bildwerke, Text, p. 227.
It is probable that these offerings were sorted
according to types, on being originally deposited. >
This order would of course be disturbed by the
fall of the vaulting, or by the iconoclastic zeal of
the early Christians. Hence so many of the same
type were met with.; a fact which it is difficult,
•otherwise, to explain, unless we suppose that the
vaulted building in which these terracottas were
found, was the magazine of their sale or manufac-
ture. I know, however, of no evidence in favour
of such a supposition, unless it be the statement
of Plutarch (Quasst. Rom. xxiii.) that at Rome
it was customary to sell articles used in funeral
rites, to. irgiog rag 'rafyag, in the temenos of Libitina,
a deity which, he adds, was held identical with
Aphrodite. It is supposed by a writer in Ger-
hard's "Archaol. Zeitung," 1848, p. 278, that
the sepulchral objects' alluded to by Plutarch in
this passage were terracottas.'
appellaremus, priscos Latinos flavissas dixisse." A little further
on he calls them " cellas quasdam et specus, quibus ajditui Capitolmi
uterentur ad custodienduni res veteres religiosas."
r ' In the Annali dell' Inst. Arched., Horn. ,1835, p. 50, is a
notice of a great discovery of terracotta figures at Psestum, which
took place about 1821. The greater part of these were figures
'of Persephone holding a pig. They were found in chambers near
the great temple. The author of the notice supposes that, from,
the immense quantity of these terracottas discovered, the site
where they were found was the place of their manufacture. Ger-
hard, Bullet, dell' Inst. Arch. Rom. 1829, p. 189, thinks that the
temple near which they were found was probably sacred" to
Demeter. See also Gerhard, Antike Bildwerke, Text, p. 227.