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
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
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
