Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 3) (London, 1904)

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suckling a kneeling calf. The cow stands to the right on
rough ground. Eight horn and part of ear are wanting.
—Towneley Coll.

Marble. Height, 8 inches ; width, 1 foot. Mus. Marbles, II., pi. 16 ;
Ellis, Town. Gall., II., p. 116 ; Graco-Bonian Guide, II., No. 125.

2212. (Fig. 34.) Eelief, representing the conversion of new
wine, mustum, into the decoction called defrutum. On the
left a caldron on a fire of logs. A man kneeling, raises the
lid of the caldron; his left hand is placed among the
logs to hold the caldron steady; the forearm is wanting.
Behind him follows another figure, carrying a bundle of
sticks, and advancing his right hand. Both these figures

Fig. 34. No. 2212.

have as their only garment a cloth tied round the loins.
On the right is a nude man, pouring wine from an
amphora into a second caldron. Another man approaches
it from the opposite side, holding out an oinochoe to be
filled ; his left hand is advanced. He wears a short chiton
girt at the waist. Style late and bad.-—Towneley Coll.

Parian marble. Height, 6J inches ; length, 1 foot 9 inches. Ellis,
Town. Gall., II., p. 150 ; Grazco-Roman Guide, II., No. 128.

2213. Fragment from a relief representing a vintage. Two
oxen are drawing a cart, to the right, on which is a large
wineskin, supported by a sort of crate. In front of the