In one hand each holds a patera; in the other each holds aloft a cow's horn perforated at the small end, through which a stream is spouting into the patera at a considerable distance.
The upper right-hand corner of the cut represents a breast-pin, attached to a Bacchanalian figure, with a patera in one hand and a glass in the other.
Its Phoenician authorship is assured by its being an almost exact repetition of a group upon the silver patera found at Amathus.
A patera of the simplest kind was found by General Di Cesnola in the treasury of Curium and is figured in his work.
The date of the patera can not be determined; it is perhaps as old as the reign of Augustus.
Silver patera with a representation of the city of Alexandria in high relief.
He smeared his cheeks with vermilion in order to conceal his paleness, then he buckled on his knemids and his cuirass, swallowed a patera of pure wine, and ran after his troops, who were hastening towards those from Utica.
Was it not for her that the grand-pontiff had once advanced amid the tumult of cymbals, and with a patera of boiling water taken from him his future virility?
When it is required to take the article apart a chisel is carefully inserted under the edge of the patera to remove it, and the screw can then be taken out.
The turned patera is driven fairly tightly into the hole, but not glued.
In cases where the style of ornament permits of it, patera covers are used instead of pelleting.
Mr. Paterahas been indefatigable in deciphering these very ancient MSS.
For many years Mr. Patera has employed his annual holidays in searching for early Bohemian MSS.
At the counter he changed a victoriatus, and was given a boat-shaped terra cotta patera full of black wine crowned with iridescent bubbles.
Meanwhile, the other slave approached with a bronze patera filled with a gray ointment.
Ode of Ausonius to Attius Patera Rhetor in Professorum Burdigalensium commemoratione.
The paterais at South Kensington, the frieze at Florence.
How thoroughly he comprehended the classic spirit is proved by the bronze patera wrought for his patron Ruberto Martelli, and by the frieze of the triumphant Bacchus.
The text of the original Nicene Creed reads as follows:-- Pisteuomen eis hena theon, patera pantokratora, panton oraton te kai aoraton poieten.
This silver patera was sold by the family of the Mírs, when captives, to the Minister of the Uzbek chief of Kunduz, and by him to Dr.
On one of the silver dishes from Dali (Idalion) possessed by the Louvre, there is a lion hunt; on the patera from Amathus there is the siege of a fortress.
Thus the subject which decorates the silver-gilt patera (fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patera" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dish; frieze; receptacle
