This is shown by the tombs on both sides of them,[79] and by the discovery of a deposit of a great quantity of ex voto terracottas in the angle between the two.
This road is identified by a deposit of ex voto terracottas which were found at the edge of the road in a hole hollowed out in the rocks.
But when these terracottas are found to reproduce throughout the exact designs and figures of vase-paintings, the line between the two fades away.
The painted decoration of these terracottas is that of the bounding friezes in vase-pictures.
To make now a definite application, it is evident that the connection between vase-paintings and painted terracottas must from the nature of the case be a very close one.
Naturally enough the later terracottas would keep close to the old tradition.
Might not the same end have been served by the terracottas on the temple, with reference to the scene within the typanum?
They were fastened to the stone by iron nails, the distance between the nail-holes in terracottas and cornice blocks corresponding exactly.
Of course his silence does not prove that there were none; but with all the finds of acroteria, terracottas and the like, no trace of any such sculptures was discovered.
A description of the collection of ancient Terracottas in the British Museum.
The invention of the mould carried this last application to perfection, and the terracottas of antiquity were as numerous and as cheap as the plaster casts now sold by itinerants.
Great difference is to be observed in the pastes of vases from widely-separated localities, due either to the composition or to the baking, as has been noted in the case of the terracottas (p.
It is probable that the colours employed for painting terracottas were made from the same earths, though of a coarser kind, as the ware itself.
Strictly speaking, the latter must be classed under the heading of terracottas (see p.
This may be a convenient point at which to speak of a class of vases which come rather under the heading of terracottas than that of painted pottery.
Many of these almost fall under the category of terracotta figures, but still must be reckoned as vases, even when painted in the methods of terracottas rather than pottery.
Martha distinguishes five in the terracottasof Athens.
The columnar form exhibits its development best in the terracottas of the Graeco-Phoenician period from Cyprus.
Generally speaking, the clay of the terracottas is softer and more porous than that of the vases.
It is obvious from a glance at any collection of terracottas that there is a great similarity between the various representatives of any one type, and that actual or virtual repetitions are by no means uncommon.
That Egyptian cults found their way into Gaul is well known,[2691] and in the terracottas such types as Isis and Horus appear, while comparisons may frequently be made with the late terracottas found in the Fayûm and at Naukratis.
But they had not been treated as a whole and in relation to the subject of ancient terracottas in general until 1891, when an important memoir by M.
Blanchet appeared, in which a complete survey of the Gaulish terracottaswas given.
Tudot originally classified the Gaulish terracottas chronologically in three periods according to style, and in this he has been followed by M.
The range of subjects in Roman terracottas is much the same as in the Greek figures of the Hellenistic period.
Phobos as a bear may, indeed, be instances to the contrary, but on the whole it would seem that the same rule would apply as in the case of the terracottas (see Vol.
As regards the uses for which these terracottas were made, much that has been said on that head in Chapter III.
Model panniers, and terracottas of a donkey and a camel with the panniers laden with rural produce, should also be noted.
The process of bread-making is illustrated by theterracottas shown in this case.
This accounts for the masses of débris, consisting chiefly of terracottas and vases, which have been found within the precincts of great sanctuaries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terracottas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
