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A Virgilian Scene from the Frampton Roman Villa, Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Anthony A. Barrett
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , September 1977 , pp. 312 - 314
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1977

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1 Originally published in JRS 36 (1946), pl. 11Google Scholar, and widely illustrated since then. I am most grateful to one of the excavators of Low Ham, Dr. C. A. R. Radford, who has kindly read this note and made some valuable suggestions.

2 Hinks, R. P., Catalogue of the Greek Etruscan and Roman Paintings and Mosaics in the British Museum (1933), No. 84, fig. 64.Google Scholar The figure is published upside down.

3 It has been speculated that one further scene may be literary, but the evidence is too fragmentary to permit a definite conclusion (see AA xxi (1943), 174–5, pl. XF (fragments from Corbridge))Google Scholar. For comparative material in another part of the empire, see Noelke, P., ‘Aeneasdarstellungen in der römischen Plastik der Rheinzone’, Germania liv (1976), 409–39Google Scholar.

4 Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae (London, 1813 vol. i, part iii, pls. I-VIIGoogle Scholar.

5 Ibid., pl. iv; illustrated in RCHM: West Dorset (1952), pl. 127, fig. 1Google Scholar and Smith, D., ‘Three Fourth-Century Schools of Mosaic in Roman Britain’, in La Mosaïque Gréco-Romaine (Paris, 1963), fig. 7Google Scholar.

6 Toynbee, J., Art in Britain under the Romans (Oxford, 1964), p. 251Google Scholar.

7 See for instance Toynbee, , loc. cit.Google Scholar; Smith, , in Rivet, A. L. F. (ed.), The Roman Villa in Britain (London, 1969), p. 83Google Scholar; Rainey, A., Mosaics in Roman Britain (New Jersey, 1973), p. 77Google Scholar.

8 Toynbee, , op. cit., p. 258Google Scholar

9 Excerpta e codicibus … i (1899, reissued 1945)Google Scholar. For date see Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini antiquiores, i (1934), no. 11Google Scholar.