A Papyrus Fragment of Acts in the Michigan Collection

1927 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry A. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Place Of Origin

Papyrus 1571 of the Michigan Collection was bought in Cairo in 1924 in a large purchase, which was allotted to the contributing institutions by Mr. H. I. Bell of the British Museum. Many documents in the Michigan part of the purchase came from the Fayûm, but no further evidence is obtainable regarding the place of origin of this fragment. It came to us in three pieces, of which one was only partly unfolded and all were so dirty as to be rather illegible, but the papyrus was already designated as a portion of Acts and dated in the fourth century.

The brooches in the Pietroasa treasure

Antiquity ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 46 (182) ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
David Brown
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Poor State ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Gold Plate

The Pietroasa treasure is a late fourth-century hoard of jewellery and gold plate; it is normally associated with the Visigoths, and is thought to have been buried at the time of the advance of the Huns into Europe. The surviving pieces of the treasure were shown in the splendid exhibition of ‘Treasures from Romania’ in the British Museum last year; the objects were briefly described in the exhibition catalogue and many were illustrated, but there were no details of the finding or significance of the hoard, and the visitor was left to speculate on the very battered state of many of the pieces. In fact, when found, the treasure comprised 22 pieces and, by all accounts, all were in excellent condition; the poor state of the twelve survivors is due to an unhappy chain of events.

Lute-Players in Greek Art

1965 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Higgins ◽  
R. P. Winnington-Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
String Length ◽  
Open Strings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Greek Art

The primary purpose of this article is to publish two terracotta representations of lute-players in the British Museum. The subject is rare, but not quite so rare as might be supposed from the scarcity of literature about it. It has, therefore, seemed worth while to add a Ust of the examples known to us—a list which does not claim to be exhaustive—and to discuss briefly some of the problems which they raise. We do this in the hope that it may stimulate further investigation of a neglected theme.Between lutes and lyres there is a difference of principle which could hardly be more fundamental. The strings of the lyre are relatively numerous, but, in default of a fingerboard, fret-board, or neck, against which they could be firmly pressed (or ‘stopped’), the possibilities of obtaining more than one note from each string, in so far as they existed, must have been limited as to the number and quality of notes obtainable. The lute has few strings, but they are stretched over a solid neck, or a prolongation of the sound-box, against which they can be pressed so as to shorten the string-length and produce notes of higher pitch than those of the open strings; each string can thus provide a number of notes of approximately equal quality. Lutes and lyres were both common in Asia and in Egypt. In Greek lands the lyre predominated, and no examples of the lute are found in art before the fourth century B.C. The examples known to us are mostly terracottas.

An Attic Cistern Front at the British Museum

1928 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
W. R. Lethaby
Keyword(s):  
Original Work ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Central Group ◽  
Large Crater ◽  
The Third ◽  
Water Trough ◽  
Herodes Atticus

In the Third Graeco-Roman Room is a long relief, numbered 2154 and entitled a Votive Relief. It is described in the catalogue (1904) as ‘Relief, perhaps votive, with Dionysos receiving a libation. The central group consists of Dionysos and a Maenad…. Behind the Maenad a large crater stands on the ground…. A moulding appears to have been tooled away above…. May be as early as the end of the fourth century. Athens: Elgin Collection. Height 2 feet 7 inches; length 5 feet 8 inches. Found among the ruins of the theatre of Herodes Atticus. Formerly in the possession of N. Logotheti. Stuart, ii, pp. 23, 45.…’Close to the ‘crater’ a hole about an inch in diameter has been carefully bored through the marble—so carefully that the presumption is that it is part of the original work, although it is suppressed in the old illustrations and is not mentioned in the descriptions. On looking behind the relief it at once appears that material at the two ends and the bottom has been cut away. The remnants of the parts which have been cut off suggest the two ends and bottom of a water trough or cistern. The hole mentioned above is situated an inch or so above what remains of the bottom, and thus conforms to the general tradition of stone water troughs such as several of granite which I have recently seen in Dartmoor farm-yards. From these evidences and the appropriate size it may not be doubted that the relief is the front of a water cistern.

Orphic Myths on Attic Vases

1890 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 343-351
Author(s):  
Cecil Smith
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Body

The accompanying cut represents the painting upon a hydria in the British Museum (No. E 818). The design, in red figures, covers the body of the vase, which apparently dates from early in the fourth century B.C., and stands 32 mètres high; the glaze is of that semi-iridescent character which marks the Attic vases of this time, and the red figures are smeared with ruddle and show the original sketch marks very plainly. It was found in excavations in Rhodes in 1880, outside a tomb at the site named in Mr. Biliotti's Diary Cazviri; unfortunately the circumstances of the find do not assist us in determining more accurately the date; but it may be taken as of certainly Athenian fabric, and probably of the date above stated.

A Roman Christian Silver Treasure from Biddulph, Staffordshire

1975 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Painter
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Direct Link ◽  
East Mediterranean ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Made In ◽  
Late Roman

SummaryIn 1971 the British Museum bought a fourth-century silver spoon with Christian symbols. An undated document acquired with the spoon showed that it was the survivor of a hoard from Biddulph, Staffordshire. In 1973 notes made in January 1886, about the discovery of the spoon, were found in a notebook compiled by A. W. Franks. The newly acquired spoon proves to have been one of a hoard of four spoons found at Whitemore Farm, Biddulph. The find-place of the spoon suggests a possible direct link between Chester and Buxton, while its dating adds to the sparse testimony for late-Roman life in the north-west of the province. The style of the lettering may indicate that the spoon was made in the East Mediterranean, and the Christian symbolism adds to the stock of evidence about the cult in the western Roman Empire.

Qur'anic Inscriptions on the Coins of the ahl al-bayt from the Second to Fourth Century AH

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Treadwell
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper asks why early Muslims selected certain Qur'anic passages for inclusion in the legends of their coins. Coinage provides a form of historical documentation which is well suited to the study of the public reception of Qur'anic material because most Islamic coins were dated (either relatively or absolutely) and their place of origin known. This preliminary study begins with the earliest Islamic coinage, concentrating on the epigraphic coinage produced by ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān's monetary reforms and the coinage of the ʿAlid pretenders to the caliphate in the ʿAbbāsid period. It discusses the anxieties expressed by some scholars about the exposure of Qur'anic text on coins to contact with persons in a state of ritual impurity. It examines the relationship of the cited texts to their Qur'anic background, proposing an inclusive reading which takes account of the textual, moral and political contexts in which these numismatic legends were used.

scholarly journals Roman Spoons from Dorchester

1922 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. M. Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
General Character ◽  
Small Class

The silver spoons in the Dorchester Museum, exhibited by Capt. Acland, F.S.A., were discovered in 1898 or 1899 on the Somerleigh Court Estate, in Dorchester, a prolific Roman site. The coins belonging to the find, over fifty in number, are all siliquae, dating from Julian II to Honorius (A. D. 360–400); among them is one coin of Licinius I, A. D. 317, which is probably intrusive. The coins, examined by my colleague, Mr. H. Mattingly, and to be published in the Numismatic Chronicle later in the present year, thus give the second half of the fourth century as the probable date of the find, a period with which the general character of the spoons is in agreement. The silver object figured with the spoons belongs to a small class represented in England and perhaps used as manicure knives. There is a specimen with a long handle and smaller blade in the British Museum.

ΛΗΚΥΘΙΟΝ and ΑΥΤΟΛΗΚΥΘΟΣ

1982 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 234-234
Author(s):  
Martin Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Wide Area ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Place Of Origin

I read with pleasure Graham Anderson's learned and amusing note, but am unconvinced. One might question his methodology, in that he does not really go into the question of what shape or shapes the words mean at what times; and illustrates ‘an aryballos’ without indicating its date or place of origin (it turns out to be redrawn from an engraving after an archaic Etruscan tomb-painting). However, these are not, I think, points of substance. λήκυθος and ληκύθιον seem to have been loosely used over a long time and wide area for any form of portable oil-flask; and there is evidence for round aryballoi in fifth- and fourth-century Athens. Also the expressions may have long been in common use, though for us they only surface in Aristophanes and Demosthenes. I cannot, though, myself see any force in Henderson's view that the standard shapes of lekythia do not resemble male genitals; not in detail, certainly, but the white lekythos, the lekythos par excellence in Aristophanes' Athens, is surely phallic enough. If one dreamed of one, Freud would be in no doubt what it meant.

The Rhoummas Herm: A Postscript

1955 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 155-155
Author(s):  
Marcus N. Tod
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
The Third

Soon after the publication (JHS LXXIII 138 ff.) by Mr. D. E. L. Haynes and myself of the portrait-herm of Rhoummas recently acquired by the British Museum I was informed by Mr. Michael R. E. Gough that he had found in his copy of LS some correspondence, dated 1910, relating to the herm. The dossier, which he kindly sent to me for examination, consists of three letters and two post-cards addressed by Arthur Sidgwick in March 1910 to the ‘Rev. A. S. Lamfrey, Grammar School, Ashford, Kent’, who had evidently written asking the meaning of the word μαρμαρόπαιστος. Sidgwick's provisional rendering was ‘struck with a stone’, but he asked for a copy of the whole inscription, and on receiving it sent it to Professor Percy Gardner, who replied that ‘the forms of the letters of the inscription seem to belong to the third or fourth century, not earlier.

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