Antiquities
Date
1685
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
Object type
Article identifier
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
24 figures from issue 176 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, showing various antiquities.
Figures 10-15. Various examples of Turpicula res, or priapa: pendants, often phallic shaped, hung around the necks of children in the Roman world to ward away danger.
Figure 16. A brass model of the Graeco-Egyptian diety Serapis.
Figure 17. Writing equipment, referred to as Stilus scriptorius.
Figures 18-19. Brass keys.
Figure 20-21. Iron dice.
Figure 22-23. Roman rings, one (23) marked XXXV, indicating that it was ‘for a slave to wear’.
Figure 24. Roman earring.
Figure 25. A lunula: a crescent shaped ornament, worn as a necklace.
Figure 26. A semi-circular fibular, or brooch.
Figures 27-31. Various examples of opaque, enamel pendants.
Figures 32.34. Various views of the cochineal fly.
Inscribed below ‘S Sculp.’
Illustrations to ‘An explanation of the figures of several antiquities, communicated by a Member of the Royal Society’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 176 (26 November 1685).
Figures 10-15. Various examples of Turpicula res, or priapa: pendants, often phallic shaped, hung around the necks of children in the Roman world to ward away danger.
Figure 16. A brass model of the Graeco-Egyptian diety Serapis.
Figure 17. Writing equipment, referred to as Stilus scriptorius.
Figures 18-19. Brass keys.
Figure 20-21. Iron dice.
Figure 22-23. Roman rings, one (23) marked XXXV, indicating that it was ‘for a slave to wear’.
Figure 24. Roman earring.
Figure 25. A lunula: a crescent shaped ornament, worn as a necklace.
Figure 26. A semi-circular fibular, or brooch.
Figures 27-31. Various examples of opaque, enamel pendants.
Figures 32.34. Various views of the cochineal fly.
Inscribed below ‘S Sculp.’
Illustrations to ‘An explanation of the figures of several antiquities, communicated by a Member of the Royal Society’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 176 (26 November 1685).
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