A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life

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British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life

A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life

Table of Contents

GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE

I.—POLITICAL INSCRIPTIONS AND SLAVERY (Table-Case K.)

II.—COINS (Table-Case K.)

III.—DRAMA (Table-Case K and Glass Shade above.)

IV.—SHIPPING (Wall-Cases 94–97.)

V.—RELIGION AND SUPERSTITION (Wall-Cases 98–106.)

Implements and methods of worship

Votive Offerings

VI.—ATHLETICS (Wall-Cases 107–108.)

VII.—GLADIATORS AND THE ARENA (Wall-Case 109.)

VIII.—CHARIOT-RACING AND THE CIRCUS (Wall-Case 110.)

IX.—ARMS AND ARMOUR (Wall-Cases 111–119, and Table-Case E.)

X.—HOUSE AND FURNITURE (Wall-Cases 25–40.)

XI.—DRESS AND TOILET (Table-Case F.)

XII.—DOMESTIC ARTS (Table-Case G.)

XIII-XVIII.—TRADE AND THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS (Wall-Cases 41–53, Table Case H.)

XIII.—TRADE

XIV.—WEIGHTS AND SCALES (Wall-Cases 41–44.)

XV.—TOOLS, BUILDING, AND SCULPTURE (Wall-Cases 45–48.)

XVI.—HORSES AND CHARIOTS (Wall-Cases 49–51.)

XVII.—AGRICULTURE (Wall-Case 52.)

XVIII.—INDUSTRIAL ARTS (Table-Case H.)

XIX.—MEDICINE AND SURGERY (Table-Case H.)

XX.—MEASURES AND INSTRUMENTS

XXI.—INFANCY. TOYS

XXII.—EDUCATION, WITH WRITING AND PAINTING (Table-Case J.)

XXIII.—GAMES (Table-Case J.)

XXIV.—MARRIAGE (Wall-Case 53.)

XXV.—MUSIC AND DANCING (Wall-Cases 54–56.)

XXVI.—DOMESTIC AND PET ANIMALS; FLOWERS (Wall-Cases 57–58.)

XXVII.—METHODS OF BURIAL (Wall-Cases 58–64.)

INDEX

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British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Two other objects may perhaps be brought into connection with slavery. The scourge (No. 22), with its lash loaded with bronze beads, was frequently used for the punishment of slaves. It is the horribile flagellum of Horace. A scourge very similar to the present is seen on a relief in the Capitoline Museum at Rome, representing a high-priest of Kybele, whose devotees were in the habit of scourging themselves in the service of the goddess.7 The pair of iron fetters (No. 23), found in 1813 in a cave behind the Pnyx at Athens, bear a close resemblance to those worn by a bestiarius or beast-fighter represented on a relief from Ephesus exhibited in Case 110, (Cat. of Sculpt., II., No. 1286).

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