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Fiflile Ivor, Cafts.
8. Adam naked, in fear, covering his face with his hands, approach-
ing towards the preceding figure of Chrift. Infcribed ΑΔΑΜ ΠΟΤΗ.
9. A winged angel fully draped, with outftretched hand.
10. Adam and Eve naked walking together. Infcribed ΑΔΑΜ ΕζΕ...
ΛΙΘ:
II. Adam with an apron of leaves tilling the ground with a mattock.
12. Adam, fully clothed, with a fickle reaping wheat as high as
himfelf.
13. Adam, fully clothed, carrying a wheatfheaf on his fhoulders.
14. The Death of Abel, who is reprefented as falling on his knees,
with unlifted hands. Infcribed TON ΑΒΕΑ. (The correfponding
plaque, with figure of Cain about to ftrike his brother, loft.)
15. A feated figure, infcribed 0 ΠΑΟΤΤΟΌ, reprefenting Pluto, the
god of mines and metals, holding in his hand an obje& which looks like
a great cabbage rather than a purfe of money.
16. Adam, fully draped, feated at an anvil, on which he holds a piece
of metal by a pair of pincers, his right hand uplifted holding a hammer.
17. Eve, fully draped, with long hanging hair, feated, holding in
each hand a long cylindrical bag diftended by hoops, clofed at top by a
flat circular piece with a handle ; that in her right hand pulled upwards
to its whole length, the other pufhed downwards ; the bottoms within a
fmall fpace on the lower angle of the piece. In conjunction with the
two preceding pieces it is evident that thefe inftruments are intended for
a pair of bellows, with which ihe is blowing the ftove in which Adam
heats the obje& which he is forging.
18. Portion of a long plaque with ornamental mouldings and an
arabefque border with foliage, grapes, and animals, forming the borders
of the cafket to which the above-defcribed plaques are affixed.
19. Portion of one of the narrow borders feparating the plaques,
with circles enclofing rofettes.
Some of the figures of the preceding plaques are quite like the fame
in a piece in the Meyrick Collection, efpecially the creation of Eve and
the death of Abel, defcribed above, No. 147. (524-542.)
'73. 218-222.
FIVE Pieces, being the front, back, two fides, and top of a
Cafket. Byzantine. 11th century. Original cafket
in the South Kenfington Mufeum, No. 216. '65. (Mafkell
Cat., p. 47.) L. 15I in., H. 4^ in., W. 6 in.
Fiflile Ivor, Cafts.
8. Adam naked, in fear, covering his face with his hands, approach-
ing towards the preceding figure of Chrift. Infcribed ΑΔΑΜ ΠΟΤΗ.
9. A winged angel fully draped, with outftretched hand.
10. Adam and Eve naked walking together. Infcribed ΑΔΑΜ ΕζΕ...
ΛΙΘ:
II. Adam with an apron of leaves tilling the ground with a mattock.
12. Adam, fully clothed, with a fickle reaping wheat as high as
himfelf.
13. Adam, fully clothed, carrying a wheatfheaf on his fhoulders.
14. The Death of Abel, who is reprefented as falling on his knees,
with unlifted hands. Infcribed TON ΑΒΕΑ. (The correfponding
plaque, with figure of Cain about to ftrike his brother, loft.)
15. A feated figure, infcribed 0 ΠΑΟΤΤΟΌ, reprefenting Pluto, the
god of mines and metals, holding in his hand an obje& which looks like
a great cabbage rather than a purfe of money.
16. Adam, fully draped, feated at an anvil, on which he holds a piece
of metal by a pair of pincers, his right hand uplifted holding a hammer.
17. Eve, fully draped, with long hanging hair, feated, holding in
each hand a long cylindrical bag diftended by hoops, clofed at top by a
flat circular piece with a handle ; that in her right hand pulled upwards
to its whole length, the other pufhed downwards ; the bottoms within a
fmall fpace on the lower angle of the piece. In conjunction with the
two preceding pieces it is evident that thefe inftruments are intended for
a pair of bellows, with which ihe is blowing the ftove in which Adam
heats the obje& which he is forging.
18. Portion of a long plaque with ornamental mouldings and an
arabefque border with foliage, grapes, and animals, forming the borders
of the cafket to which the above-defcribed plaques are affixed.
19. Portion of one of the narrow borders feparating the plaques,
with circles enclofing rofettes.
Some of the figures of the preceding plaques are quite like the fame
in a piece in the Meyrick Collection, efpecially the creation of Eve and
the death of Abel, defcribed above, No. 147. (524-542.)
'73. 218-222.
FIVE Pieces, being the front, back, two fides, and top of a
Cafket. Byzantine. 11th century. Original cafket
in the South Kenfington Mufeum, No. 216. '65. (Mafkell
Cat., p. 47.) L. 15I in., H. 4^ in., W. 6 in.