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incrustation, like mortar, as hard as flint. 
After placing it for thirty-six hours in diluted 
muriatic acid, during all which time the extra- 
neous cement dissolved with effervescence, 
there appeared upon its surface a beautiful 
Fig. 4. A LAMP of red clay ; perhaps one of the tt^ri^uv uyaXfutrx 
mentioned afterwards in the text. Sometimes the representation of a 
human head is found with a handle and spout, as a drinking vessel, 
like the toys sold in our potteries. The forms of various animals also 
occur as lamps and vessels of libation. 
Fig. 5. The GREEK PITCHER, for milk, or water, 5j inches high 
to the top of the handle, 4 inches to the lip. 
Fig. 6. A LACHRYMAL PHIAL of coarse dark clay, nine inches in 
length : we found several of these in Sicyon. This is the most autient 
form of the Lachrymatory : in latter ages they were smaller, and of 
glass. " PUT THOU MY TEARS INTO THY BOTTLE." Ps. Ivi. 8. 
Fig. 7. A LACHRYMATORY, formed upon the site of antient Cromyon, 
of the same material as the preceding : this is 4| inches high. It 
has white circles upon a dark ground, the common colour of marl, 
Fig. 8. Three of this form, beautiful LIBATORY VESSELS, with black 
ornaments on a red ground, were found in Epidaurta- The plant 
painted upon them is that which architects call Acanthus, and 
antiquaries sometimes the Lotus. 
Fig. 9. Above twenty vessels of this shape, of different sizes, were 
found in Epidauria; the largest not being more than four inches 
high, and about five inches in diameter, of a bright red colour ; some- 
times almost covered with black varnish, shining like polished jet; 
but of the most delicate workmanship, and nearly as thin as paper. 
Fig. 10. A LAMP, of dark, coarse, heavy clay. 
Figs. 11, 12. Small vessels, the largest being only one inch in 
height, and two inches in diameter : perhaps designed for the same 
use to which they are still applied by modern nations ; namely, as 
stands for salt. 
Fig. 13. A small LACHRYMATORY, of red clay. 
