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They also had a special talent for producing embossed metal-work of a highly artistic character in the shape of cups, bowls, and dishes or paterae, whereon scenes of various kinds were represented with a vigour and precision that are quite admirable. Some account of these two classes of works must here be given. The statuettes commence with work of the rudest kind.
In return she supplied the colonists with her own manufactured articles; with fabrics in linen, wool, cotton, and perhaps to some extent in silk; with every variety of pottery, from dishes and jugs of the plainest and most simple kind to the most costly and elaborate vases and amphorae; with metal utensils and arms, with gold and silver ornaments, with embossed shields and paterae, with faince and glass, and also with any foreign products or manufactures that they desired and that the countries within the range of her influence could furnish.
The vessels include paterae, bowls, jugs, amphorae, and cups; the implements, hatchets, adzes, knives, and sickles; the arms, spearheads, arrowheads, daggers, battle-axes, helmets, and shields; the toilet articles, mirrors, hand-bells, buckles, candlesticks, &c.; the furniture, tall candelabra, tripods, and thrones.
In these cases the visitor will find a great number of bronze utensils and personal ornaments: metal mirrors; lamps; incense vessels, or thuribula; the saucers for pouring libations, called paterae; tripods of all kinds and variously ornamented; candelabra; and the clasps of the Romans called fibulae.
Artistically this patera is much upon a par with those from Dali and Athienau, which have been already described. Our space will not admit of our pursuing this subject much further. We cannot give descriptions of all the twenty paterae, pronounced by the best critics to be Phoenician, which are contained in the museums of Europe and America.
The top of this cabinet was covered with busts, and Roman lamps and paterae, intermingled with one or two bronze figures.
On her part Phoenicia must have imported into Assyria and Babylonia the tin which was a necessary element in their bronze; and they seem also to have found a market in Assyria for their own most valuable and artistic bronzes, the exquisite embossed paterae which are among the most precious of the treasures brought by Sir Austen Layard from Nineveh.
The top of this cabinet was covered with busts, and Roman lamps and paterae, intermingled with one or two bronze figures.
At Carthage alone there have been found many hundreds of stones, each one of which records the payment of a vow; while other sites have furnished hundreds or even thousands of ex votos statues, busts, statuettes, figures of animals, cylinders, seals, rings, bracelets, anklets, ear-rings, necklaces, ornaments for the hair, vases, amphorae, oenochoae, paterae, jugs, cups, goblets, bowls, dishes, models of boats and chariots indicative of an almost unexampled devotion.
It consists at present of five or six moderately long, and some hundreds of exceedingly short, inscriptions; the longer ones being, all of them, inscribed on stones, the shorter on stones, vases, paterae, gems, coins, and the like.
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