Transcriber's Note:
All the illustrations in this book can be enlarged by clicking on the illustration.
This better shows the wealth of detail in these very old vase paintings, sculptures and other artifacts.
The rest of the Transcriber's Note is at the end of the book.
A GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATING
GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE.
SECOND EDITION.
Frontispiece.] Terracotta Boats from Amathus (p. 34).
BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.
A GUIDE
TO THE EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATING
GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE.
SECOND EDITION.
WITH A FRONTISPIECE AND TWO HUNDRED ANDSIXTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.
1920.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E. 1, AND GREAT WINDMILL STREET, W. 1.
ERRATA.
P. 121, l.17. For 339 read 339*
Pp. 143, 144, 145. For 421-426 read 421*-426*
P. 216 near foot. For 655 read 655*
PREFACE.
In this Exhibition an attempt has been made to bring togethera number of miscellaneous antiquities which formed a part ofthe collections of the Department, in such a method as illustratesthe purpose for which they were intended, rather than theirartistic quality, their material, or their place in the evolutionof craft or design.
Such a series falls naturally into groups, and it has beenfound convenient to treat these groups in accordance with ageneral scheme, the illustration of the public and private life ofthe Greeks and Romans.
The materials forming the basis of this scheme are, primarily,objects which already formed part of the Museum collections:for this reason it has not been possible always to preserve thatproportion in the relation of the sections to the whole whichwould have been studied if the objects had been selected foracquisition with this purpose in view. Further, it is necessaryto warn visitors that they must not expect to find the subjectin any sense exhaustively treated here: the complete illustrationof every detail of ancient life would be impossible for any museumas at present constituted. All that can