05-12-2010, 09:45 PM
Brian,
I was doing a cycle trip along Hadrian's Wall back in 1999, stopping in at as many of the Roman sites as I could along the way. When I stopped in at Corbridge, it just happened to be at the same time as the Corbridge Lanx was making a very rare appearance on display in the museum there. It was nestling within a luxurious piece of deep blue velvet cloth in a small temporary cabinet and the glass was only three to four inches away from the lanx itself. I had only read of the lanx previously and had never seen a picture of it until that time so I was quite struck by it. However, as I said, what really struck me more than anything else was the compositional arrangement, and it was this which I really took away with me, rather than the admittedly very fine workmanship of the piece.
Crispvs
I was doing a cycle trip along Hadrian's Wall back in 1999, stopping in at as many of the Roman sites as I could along the way. When I stopped in at Corbridge, it just happened to be at the same time as the Corbridge Lanx was making a very rare appearance on display in the museum there. It was nestling within a luxurious piece of deep blue velvet cloth in a small temporary cabinet and the glass was only three to four inches away from the lanx itself. I had only read of the lanx previously and had never seen a picture of it until that time so I was quite struck by it. However, as I said, what really struck me more than anything else was the compositional arrangement, and it was this which I really took away with me, rather than the admittedly very fine workmanship of the piece.
Crispvs
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