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1. [Votive slip folio 2 recto 2]
[Votive slip folio 2 recto 2]
Description
Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Image of red mirror and suite of black drawers.
2. [Votive slip folio 3 recto 2]
[Votive slip folio 3 recto 2]
Description
Two-unit votive slip depicting red horned creature looking in large red mirror, tweezing hairs on face. Black and white votive slips in upper left and bottom right corner.
3. [Folio 14 recto]
[Folio 14 recto]
Description
Eight-unit votive slip on page. Demonic figure with red face and while black hair and beard. Holds white slip with black text and ren mark in hand. Mirror in background with black text and red seal.
4. [Votive slip folio 14 recto 1]
[Votive slip folio 14 recto 1]
Description
Eight-unit votive slip with double black border. Demonic figure with red face and while black hair and beard. Holds white slip with black text and ren mark in hand. Mirror in background with black text and red seal.
5. [Votive slip folio 15 verso 1]
[Votive slip folio 15 verso 1]
Description
Four-unit votive slip with double black border. Image of kabuki actor applying face make up in dressing room mirror. Row of white slips with black text along uppe edge. White slip with black text in upper right corner. Smaller slip in lower right corner.
6. Winged figure liberating before warrior
Winged figure liberating before warrior
Description
Bronze casket (cista) engraved with a scene of Bellerophon (Melerpanta) holding Pegasus by the reins. The handle is cast in the form of a girl holding a perfume bottle, and a young man with oil-flask and scraper (strigil). The feet have lion's paws surrounded by sphinxes. Ladies' toilet articles were kept in such caskets. --The British Museum, Walters, H B, Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan., I-II, London, BMP, 1899
7. Winged figure liberating before warrior
Winged figure liberating before warrior
Description
Bronze cista or container for cosmetic articles; engraving perhaps re-cut in the 19thC, possibly over an existing image. Main scene perhaps represents a parody of the Judgement of Paris; the figures forming the handle are a young satyr and a maenad. --The British Museum, Walters, H B, Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan., I-II, London, BMP, 1899
8. Winged figure liberating before warrior
Winged figure liberating before warrior
Description
Bronze cista or container for cosmetic articles; engraving perhaps re-cut in the 19thC, possibly over an existing image. Main scene perhaps represents a parody of the Judgement of Paris; the figures forming the handle are a young satyr and a maenad. --The British Museum, Walters, H B, Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan., I-II, London, BMP, 1899
9. Release of Prometheus Mirror
Release of Prometheus Mirror
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
10. Bronze pot
Bronze pot
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
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