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VIII. Some Observations on an Antique Bas-relief, on which the Evil Eye, or Fascinum, is represented. By James Millingen, Esq. F.S.A.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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The monument of which a drawing is presented to this learned Society, (see Pl. VI.) is the only one of the kind that has been hitherto discovered. It is interesting not only from its singularity, but as illustrating various doubtful points of antiquity.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1821

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page 70 note a Alsarius de Fascino. Antiq. Roman, a Grævio, tom. xii. p. 885. Potter Archaeol. Græca. lip. ii. cap. 18.

page 71 note a I am indebted for this information respecting the prevalence of the superstition of the evil eye in Greece to my friend Mr. Dodwell.

page 71 note b Ως μὴ Βασκανθῶ δὲ τρις ἐμὸν ἔπτυσα κολπον. Theocr. Idyl. vi. v. 39.

page 71 note c Turre, Monum. Vet. Antii Roma 1700, p. 157, and Visconti Museo Pio-clementino, tom. vii. p. 10.

page 72 note a Aeschylus. Prometheus, v. 794.

page 72 note b The γοργόνειον was placed in the temple of Minerva Polias at Athens. Eustat. in Homer. Iliad, p. 1704, l. 32.

page 72 note c Ion. v. 225.

page 72 note d Numi Vet. Anecdoti, p. 12, et seqq.

page 72 note e Millingen. Vases de Sir John Coghill, p. 14.

page 73 note a Monumenti Inediti, tom. ii. p. 26.

page 73 note b Hist. Nat. lib. xxviii. cap. 5.

page 73 note c Hesiod.

page 73 note d Monumenti Inediti, tom. ii. p. 32.

page 73 note e Description of Antient Terra-cottas, pl. xvi. p. 27.

page 73 note f The fig was particularly held sacred to Bacchus. A vessel of wine and a basket of figs were in early times the rewards for Comedy. Plutarch de Divit.

page 73 note g Aristophanes, Ranæ v. 307.