Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18742

    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
    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).
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