The Antiquary, Vol. 39
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Excerpt from The Antiquary, Vol. 39: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past After last month´s Antiquary had gone to press, we heard that the proposal to interfere with the York city moat, to which reference was made in the first of the "Notes of the Month," had been dropped. We congratulate the City Council on their decision, and trust that they will be quick to resist any future attempt - such as the proposal to lay out the moats as pleasure-grounds - to tamper with the existing memorials of the city´s historic past. Few, if any, coin-cabinets contain a finer sequence of portraits of Roman Emperors and Empresses, from the earliest to the latest (Byzantine) period, than that brought together by Mons. E. Bizot during the last half-century. M. Bizot, for long Keeper of the Museum at Vienne (Isere), has devoted much of his leisure to the acquisition of Roman coins in good preservation, and each portrait was selected to show as perfectly as may be the features of the personage represented. The collection was sold at Sotheby´s in November, when high prices were obtained. The following prominent bronze pieces were sold on the first day: a sestertius, bearing the draped and laureated bust of Vitellius, A.D. 69, £37 10s.; a second, with the draped and diademed bust of Marciana, £20; a third, with a profile portrait of Empress Sabina, £19 5s. Important examples on the second and third days included a sestertius, with a bust portrait of Diadumenian, A.D. 217, wearing paludamentum over cuirass, said to be the finest known specimen, £20; another, with the laureated bust of Lucius Verus, well patinated, £18; an aureus, on whose reverse are busts of Caracalla and Geta vis-à-vis, rare and unpublished, £20 l0s.; a second, showing the helmeted portrait of Probus, A.D. 276-282, £25. The 420 lots brought an aggregate of £1,585. The Committee which was appointed some three years ago "To inquire and report as to any arrangements now in operation for the collection, custody, indexing, and calendaring of local records, and as to any further measures which it may be advisable to take for this purpose," have recently issued their report in the form of a blue-book [Cd. 1,335]. The report, which can be bought for a few pence, should be in the hands of every antiquary interested in the safe custody of our local records. We regret we have not space to give the Committee´s recommendations, which are numerous and important. In the Glasgow Herald of November 29 Mr. Andrew Lang had an interesting letter on the curiously inscribed stone or shale plaques recently found in exploring the pile structure at Langbank on the Clyde. Some guessers have boldly suggested that the strange designs were made by idle Roman soldiers. Mr. Lang says: "I myself would not attribute these stone caricatures to Roman soldiers unless I had proof that they actually left such relics elsewhere. I am not acquainted with similar objects - masks, if I may so call them - anywhere, though, of course, we have the beautifully executed, polished stone masks of the Aztecs, the sepulchral gold masks of Mycenæ, the countless masks used in Polynesian and Melanesian ritual, and so forth, including the tiny stone grotesques found in Finland. But nowhere do I know things like the stone grotesques of the Clyde, and when I say that I believe them to be ´genuine,´ I merely mean that they are not humorous modern forgeries, whatever they are." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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