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History of ancient pottery (1858)

Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London : J. Murray · leaf 256

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192 ETRUSCAN POTTERY. and viscera, have also been found, some having plug-holes 1 for fixing them to statues, either made of other materials, … or in separate pieces, like the acrolithic statues of Greece. Some of these may have been charisteria , or thank-offer- ings, like those at Athens. BAS-EELIEFS. No bas-reliefs like those employed by the Romans to decorate the walls of edifices have been discovered in recent excavations, although it…

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