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AND PLUTO EPLMACIIOS. 387
young girls; others of women who have suckled
children.
It is well known that the custom of dedicating
models of any part of the body which had been
affected by disease has been retained from pagan
antiquity both by the Greek and Roman churches.
Votive breasts, sculptured in marble, may be
seen in the Elgin Collection, and are not uncom-
mon in museums. The form here described, how-
ever, is very unusual.0 On the handles are incised
marks resembling Roman numerals, but, appa-
rently, only meant for ornament. The general
form of the plinth and handle of these objects
led nie to think that they might be weights;
and on testing them in the scales, they exhibited
certain relative proportions which can hardly be
accounted for on any other supposition.'1
(19.) With these breasts was found a similar
plinth, on which two heads, however, of Cupids
were substituted for the pair of breasts. These
heads were placed back to back, being connected,
like the breasts, by a handle rising between them.
(Plate LVIIL, fig'. 7.)
As the sculpture which had fallen into the cham-
ber was removed, Ave came to a stratum of smaller
and more fragile objects below.
Several lamps of the Roman period, an ampku-
c Two pairs, similar to those from C'nidus, were found by Sir
C Fellows in the ruins of Xanthus, and are now in the British
Museum. In one of these specimens, the handle seems fashioned
so as to represent a thunderbolt.
d An account of the results obtained by weighing these objects
will form the subject of one of the Appendices of this volume.
young girls; others of women who have suckled
children.
It is well known that the custom of dedicating
models of any part of the body which had been
affected by disease has been retained from pagan
antiquity both by the Greek and Roman churches.
Votive breasts, sculptured in marble, may be
seen in the Elgin Collection, and are not uncom-
mon in museums. The form here described, how-
ever, is very unusual.0 On the handles are incised
marks resembling Roman numerals, but, appa-
rently, only meant for ornament. The general
form of the plinth and handle of these objects
led nie to think that they might be weights;
and on testing them in the scales, they exhibited
certain relative proportions which can hardly be
accounted for on any other supposition.'1
(19.) With these breasts was found a similar
plinth, on which two heads, however, of Cupids
were substituted for the pair of breasts. These
heads were placed back to back, being connected,
like the breasts, by a handle rising between them.
(Plate LVIIL, fig'. 7.)
As the sculpture which had fallen into the cham-
ber was removed, Ave came to a stratum of smaller
and more fragile objects below.
Several lamps of the Roman period, an ampku-
c Two pairs, similar to those from C'nidus, were found by Sir
C Fellows in the ruins of Xanthus, and are now in the British
Museum. In one of these specimens, the handle seems fashioned
so as to represent a thunderbolt.
d An account of the results obtained by weighing these objects
will form the subject of one of the Appendices of this volume.