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8 is a dilator vaginae, διόπτρα, with three branches.
9 a curved forceps with toothed edges (shown in plan at the
side).
Fig. io.—Surgical Instruments.
Relief on a basis from the Temple of Asclepius,
(’Α,σκληπι,άον.) ATHENS. In THE CENTRAL MUSEUM THERE.
Sybel, Katalog, No. 3279 (references).
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 1389.
Two cupping-glasses, and an open case of surgical instru-
ments, three at each side, held in their places by small wooden
blocks.
Fig. ii.—Surgical Instruments.
Relief, found at Mezzasilva near Palestrina, Anc.
Praeneste. In the Capitoline Museum, Rome.
Jahn, Berichte, 1861, Pl. 9, 10.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 1387.
Thb cippus on which this relief is engraved bears the
inscription (C.I.L. xiv. no. 3030) D(iis) M\anibus} / P. Aelio
Pio I Curtiano / medico amico / bene merito / Curtins Crisp-
inus / Arruntianus. It represents a doctor’s case opened
showing various surgical instruments.
Fig. 12.—A View of Puteoli.
Fig. i2tz.·—Glass Vase found at Piombino (anc.
Populonia).
Bulletino archeol. Napoletano, N. Ser., 1, 9, 2.
Beloch, Companion, p. 126.
On the right is a pier (curving in towards the shore on the
left) with arches (cf. fig. 64, 8), on which stands a triumphal
arch surmounted by four hippocamps drawing a chariot (the
hippocamps only are shown). Then come two columns
(pilae) erected in honour of some victory, and a temple (to
Janus) showing three gables.
In the background the land (ripa) is visible through the
arches of this building, which may perhaps be the sea gate of
the city.
On the left is a huge house built out into the sea on piles.
It is inscribed palatium. It is in two wings, which are appa-
rently joined by a trellised terrace. Between these two sets of
piles are oyster-beds (ostriarid), the oysters being planted as
they still are among piles. Puteoli is only a couple of miles
distant from the famous Lucrine Lake, and this may actually
be what is represented here. The word stagnum (“lagoon”
or “ pond ”), which is written near palatium would fall in well
with this explanation.
Above is the motto Anima felix vivas, “ Dear heart, may you
live happy.”
Beloch (loe. eit.') gives an account of two similar vases and a
picture (?) which has almost the same design. One of these
was found in the mines at Odcnira in Portugal, which shows
that, like fig. 5, they were designed for sale to the visitors who
came to the watering place.
9 a curved forceps with toothed edges (shown in plan at the
side).
Fig. io.—Surgical Instruments.
Relief on a basis from the Temple of Asclepius,
(’Α,σκληπι,άον.) ATHENS. In THE CENTRAL MUSEUM THERE.
Sybel, Katalog, No. 3279 (references).
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 1389.
Two cupping-glasses, and an open case of surgical instru-
ments, three at each side, held in their places by small wooden
blocks.
Fig. ii.—Surgical Instruments.
Relief, found at Mezzasilva near Palestrina, Anc.
Praeneste. In the Capitoline Museum, Rome.
Jahn, Berichte, 1861, Pl. 9, 10.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 1387.
Thb cippus on which this relief is engraved bears the
inscription (C.I.L. xiv. no. 3030) D(iis) M\anibus} / P. Aelio
Pio I Curtiano / medico amico / bene merito / Curtins Crisp-
inus / Arruntianus. It represents a doctor’s case opened
showing various surgical instruments.
Fig. 12.—A View of Puteoli.
Fig. i2tz.·—Glass Vase found at Piombino (anc.
Populonia).
Bulletino archeol. Napoletano, N. Ser., 1, 9, 2.
Beloch, Companion, p. 126.
On the right is a pier (curving in towards the shore on the
left) with arches (cf. fig. 64, 8), on which stands a triumphal
arch surmounted by four hippocamps drawing a chariot (the
hippocamps only are shown). Then come two columns
(pilae) erected in honour of some victory, and a temple (to
Janus) showing three gables.
In the background the land (ripa) is visible through the
arches of this building, which may perhaps be the sea gate of
the city.
On the left is a huge house built out into the sea on piles.
It is inscribed palatium. It is in two wings, which are appa-
rently joined by a trellised terrace. Between these two sets of
piles are oyster-beds (ostriarid), the oysters being planted as
they still are among piles. Puteoli is only a couple of miles
distant from the famous Lucrine Lake, and this may actually
be what is represented here. The word stagnum (“lagoon”
or “ pond ”), which is written near palatium would fall in well
with this explanation.
Above is the motto Anima felix vivas, “ Dear heart, may you
live happy.”
Beloch (loe. eit.') gives an account of two similar vases and a
picture (?) which has almost the same design. One of these
was found in the mines at Odcnira in Portugal, which shows
that, like fig. 5, they were designed for sale to the visitors who
came to the watering place.