The Archaeological Journal 1880 Vol 37 Classic Reprint

Author : British Archaeological Associ Committee
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666832306
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeological Journal, 1889, Vol. 46 (Classic Reprint) written by British Archaeological Associ Committee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Archaeological Journal, 1889, Vol. 46 In all the Roman period the custom was to bury not in a coffin, nor in a pit-well; all that system went out when bodies were kept above ground and decorated. The custom then was to build brick chambers above ground, along the sides Of the road in the cemetery, and to bury the bodies in shallow graves in the floors of the chambers covered with loose earth and dust, often only a foot or two down. Very frequently a whole family of mummies appears to have been huddled Off by an undertaker, and buried anyhow in the first convenient hole, heads and feet in any direction: in one case a dozen gilt head mummies were forced into a square pit Of an Old tomb, several upside down in order to get room for their shoulders among the legs of the others. All this period is of little interest from an Egyptian point Of View; but as an illustration of the decay of beliefs and customs of extreme antiquity, as a study Of the extent to which Greeks and Italians adopted the habits of the people among whom they lived, and as the surround ing of an important chapter In the history of painting, we may well give some attention to this series of changes which I have now briefly traced. We will now turn to some technical examples of the products of Roman life in Egypt. The portraits on cedar wood panels are rarely in tempera, only a few early trials being thus executed. The regular mode was by mixing the colours with melted wax, exactly as we do with oil, and then laying them on, usually with a brush, sometimes with pastel. A coat of priming of the ground-colour of the subject was laid on first, and then the painting was worked in upon that. Cross-hatching of a darker tint, or spotting, is occasionally seen in the earlier examples; but usually the right tint was mixed and laid on smoothly with a great delicacy of blending in and shading. Of the technical excellence of these portraits I need not speak, as it is manifest to all; many of them could hardly be surpassed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.