Word: amphoras
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...adjoining room are a selection of Greek vases, mainly from the Hoppin Collection. Outstanding is the great amphora that was a Panathenaic prize. Across the room are decorative arts from Mediterranean lands. Terra cotta figurines from Tanagra, phials of Roman glass, and Tuscan gold earrings are preeminent in this group...
...interesting exchange was arranged between the Fogg Museum and the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels. This Museum owned an Attic black-figured amphora, complete except for a fragment bearing the signature of Nicosthenes. This fragment belonged to the Fogg Museum. At the suggestion of Professor Capart, the Director of the Royal Museums, the Fogg Museum gave the fragment to Brussels and received in return nine very interesting small terra cotta heads from Asia Minor, dating from the first or second century...
...ever drink to the joys of youth and songs of pleasure. They are sad, as wine has made them sad; the fields of Bacchus have been sullied by the mundane and unworthy impious of the temple of Mercury. The cratera is empty, while cases of gin replace the dusty amphora...
...list of the gifts: a votive head of terra-cotta from Veil, presented by Professor J. M. Paton; a large terra-cotta Roman lamp, presented by Mrs. Schuyler Rensselaer, of New York; a model of a Roman bit, presented by R. W. Lee '04; a small collection of amphora handles, terra-cotta ex-votos and brick-stamps from the neighborhood of Rome, presented by Dr. A. S. Pease...