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.) appear. These two groups cover the first century after Christ.

Sometimes the ornamentation of the later glazed wares from Italy takes the form of small reliefs (_emblemata_), made separately and attached before the glaze was applied, and there are two or three specimens of this class in the British Museum. It was also not infrequently used for lamps, which, apart from the glaze, have all the characteristics of the ordinary kinds, and even for figures of gladiators, boats, and other objects. The glaze is of a thick vitreous character, and was not improbably produced by lead; at all events a French writer[445] maintains, in opposition to the views of Brongniart and Blümner, that by a study of this ware he has established a knowledge of lead-glaze among the ancients.[446]

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Footnote 300:

Strabo, viii. p. 381 (the expression should probably be confined to vases with reliefs).

Footnote 301:

Paus. i. 3, 1; Harpokration, _s.v._ κεραμεῖς.

Footnote 302:

_Il._ v. 387.

Footnote 303:

ii. 8, 10.

Footnote 304:

Hdt. i. 179; Xen. _Anab._ iii. 4, 7. Cf. Ovid, _Mel._ iv. 57:

“ubi dicitur altam Coctilibus muris cinxisse Semiramis urbem.”

Footnote 305:

_H.N._ vii. 194.

Footnote 306:

v. 5, 4; x. 35, 5 and 4, 3; ii. 27, 7 (ὠμῆς τῆς πλίνθου: see Frazer’s note ad loc.); Nissen, _Pompeian. Studien_, p. 24.

Footnote 307:

Vitr. ii. 8, 9.

Footnote 308:

Xen. _Hell._ v. 2, 5; Paus. viii. 8, 5.

Footnote 309:

ἀγάλματα ἐκ πηλοῦ, i. 2, 5.

Footnote 310:

xxxv. 155; see Milchhoefer in _Arch. Stud. H. Brunn dargebr._ p. 50.

Footnote 311:

vii. 22, 6.

Footnote 312:

i. 40, 4.

Footnote 313:

See on the subject generally Dörpfeld and others, _Die Verwendung von Terrakotten_, Berlin, 1881.

Footnote 314:

_Ath. Mitth._ xxiv. (1899), p. 350; Ἐφ. Ἀρχ. 1903, pls. 2–6, p. 71 ff. Cf. the painted terracotta panels in wooden frames at Sparta, mentioned by Vitruvius (ii. 8, 9).

Footnote 315:

See a passage in Xenophon (_Mem._ iii. 1, 7) bearing on the different materials used in Greek domestic architecture.

Footnote 316:

See Dörpfeld, _Die antike Ziegelbau u. sein Einfluss auf d. dor. Styl_, in _Hist. u. Phil. Aufsätze E. Curtius gewidmet_, p. 139 ff.

Footnote 317:

Diod. Sic. xvii. 115.

Footnote 318:

i. 42, 5.

Footnote 319:

v. 20, 5.

Footnote 320:

Blümner, _Technologie_, ii. p. 11; _Olympia_ (_Ergebnisse_), ii. p. 129 ff.

Footnote 321:

_Inscr. Gr._ (_Atticae_), ii. 167.

Footnote 322:

Αἰγύπτιοι πλινθοφόροι (l. 1133).

Footnote 323:

An obviously incorrect rendering of πηλός; Tr. pêlos the process of making sun-dried bricks is certainly here referred to, as the allusion to Αἰγύπτιοι πλινθοφόροι implies.

Footnote 324:

ii. 3, 3.

Footnote 325:

ii. 2, 4.

Footnote 326:

ii. 2, 1, 2. For further details see