Hostname: page-component-5c6d5d7d68-pkt8n Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-08T08:19:32.666Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Vases from Rhodes with Incised Inscriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

I have already had occasion (Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. V. p. 220) to speak of a collection of antiquities discovered by Mr. Biliotti in his excavations in Rhodes. These objects it will be remembered were transmitted to England with a diary of the excavations in which were noted the contents of each tomb as it was found; and a running number was pencilled upon every object as a reference to the tomb which had contained it. Unfortunately, these numbers have in many cases been lost, owing to the wear and tear of packing, breakage and cleaning; and even in other cases where these are preserved, it has been difficult sometimes to identify the object in its cleaned state with Mr. Biliotti's description on the spot: so that the most that can be done is to deduce general inferences only. I propose in the next volume of this Journal to publish the more interesting portions of the Diary, with references, wherever it has been possible to identify the objects, to Messrs. Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, in compiling which I have classed all the objects according to their style and have given a description of the more important. The results are I think likely to prove valuable for the study of Rhodian vase-fabrics.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1885

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 373 note 1 Purchased at a sale in London this year; the inscription runs Röhlľs transcript (Inscr. Ant. no. 526) seems accurate with this exception, that the first letter of θυφλὸς is not, as he gives it, , but certainly complete, thus ⊕.

page 376 note 1 It has been suggested to me that this may equally be read as Γοργὼ μάτρωσι, but as that would be a very unusual form of dedication to meet with among this class of inscriptions, I prefer to consider Γοργόματρος as a proper name, formed on the analogy of such names as Ἀντίπατρος, Σώματρος. The final | would be in that case nothing more than a lapsus calami.