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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 12, 1963
Old Wilcox Museum Holds Artifacts of Ancient Ages
By Joyce Grist
When old Fraser, itself, is torn down, the venerable, but often overlooked Wilcox Museum will go with it.
The museum, part of the Department of Classics and Classical Archaeology, was first opened in 1886. The department will be expanded and housed in the building to replace old Fraser Hall after 1966.
THE PURPOSE of the Wilcox Museum is an educational rather than an artistic one, reported Curator Stephen L. Glass, also an instructor in the department. Students of ancient history and archaeology are allowed to examine and study artifacts of the museum.
According to Glass this is of great value to the students, especially in studying sculpture. The three dimensional quality of sculpture makes it difficult to study by the use of slides.
Most of the items in the museum were obtained through the efforts of Professor A. M. Wilcox who was chairman of the department for 40 years. There is a large collection of plaster cast sculptures which are casts made from the original pieces of sculpture. Such casts are no longer made. Busts in the collection include Vergil, Homer, Julius Caesar, Trajan, Hadrian, Pericles, Socrates, and Plato.
AMONG original items in the museum collection are Roman lamps of terra cotta, Etruscan pottery, terra cotta antefixes, some fragments of Roman wall painting from Pompeii (63-79 A.D.), Roman funerary inscriptions, and one half of a frieze from the Parthenon.
There is also a collection of ancient coins including a drachma of Elis (323-300 B.C.) and a Persian siglos (550 B.C.).
Among the plaster statues in the museum are those of the emperor Augustus (20 B.C.). Vemus of Melos (the style of 4th century B.C.), Apollo (4th century B.C.), "The Dying Gaul" (about 200 B.C.), and Hermes with the infant Dionysus (4th century B.C.).
ONE OF THE newest acquisitions is a late geometric pyxis (about 750 B.C.). A pyxis was used as a container for women's toilet articles.
Another addition to the museum collection is a Graeco-Roman funerary relief (1st century B.C.) inscribed "Saturnila of Aleppo, Farewell." The most interesting new acquisition is a sistrum. The sistrum originally was a musical instrument and was later used as a functional object by the Romanized cult of the Egvutian goddess Isis.
A majority of the valuable items in the museum are from Italy and Greece, purchased when ancient art was cheaper and much easier to obtain than it is today.
IT IS ILLEGAL to take notable art objects from Greece except through a special government grant. The only items that are removed by excavators are coins or fragments of pottery.
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