Word: cotta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural amphitheatre by the row-boat-ridden Serpentine, military bands were playing "Tipperary," "A Long, Long Trail," old songs of the War. The bands ceased. Into the amphitheatre marched massed choirs of London churches in cassock and cotta, at their head the sedate Bishop of Kensington, Rt. Rev. John Primatt Maud, solemn in billowing lawn sleeves, and pectoral cross. The Bishop took his place on the speakers' platform. A rocket curved up into the evening air. The Bishop of Kensington read the Lord's Prayer and a prayer for the King...
...Western part of Chinese Turkestan, at a place which was supposed to be a late Mohammedan shrine, I have found the ruins of a Buddhist temple of about 500 A. D. and collected there quite a number of clay figures, turned to a sort of a terra-cotta when fire was set to the temple and which show unmistakable signs of hellenistic influence. From another temple of the eighth century come many Sanskrit and Tokharian manuscripts, and also figures carved in wood, including the oldest woodblock extant, cut before 800 A. D., for printing an image of Buddha...
...Mesa, Ariz., on land reclaimed from the desert by Mormons, is a huge terra cotta temple. Its foundations are 12 feet thick, its walls 4 feet thick; its area 184 by 128 feet. Within is a massive baptismal font of bronze and tile, resting on the backs twelve life-size oxen made of fired clay, altars and great rooms decorated with paintings, gold and marble...
...Athens, Greece, 300 years B. C., a woman suffered as did Mr. Phillips. Ancient doctors could not cure her. So she had a five-inch image of herself, with all her grotesque deformities, made in terra cotta to show the gods what had become of her and to supplicate their pity. In 1914 the figure was dug up at Athens...
...shore and several more half a league inland. Two of them until recently had figures set on the altars. One of these is still in place but the hand is gone and the other has been taken away entirely. We found this evidence that the figures of terra cotta and stuco of the styule found in Talusco and also Yucatan were set up on table altars and in niches over the doors of shrines...