The evil eye. An account of this ancient and wide spread superstition

MOULDS OF POZZUOLI AND TARANTO 38:
Near the hand beneath the bird, is the strigil
accompanied by the vase of oil, " or rather the
xistrolecito, a well-known symbol of bath and
palestra." These are called strigil and guttus in
Smith's Dictionary of Antiqttities. The square
tablet in all the plaques is, according to Minervini, a
tabella representing athletic laws of the gymnasium
and palestra. I prefer to follow the example of
Jahn and Evans, by saying I do not know what it
is. On comparing them together no candid reader
Fig. 185.
will deny that all these moulds were certainly in-
tended for the same purpose, particularly as duplicates
were found so far apart as Pozzuoli and
Taranto.
Although very different in the general arrangement
of the objects represented upon it, yet the
lamp shows so much resemblance, and it has so
many symbols belonging to the other combinations,
that it is but reasonable to consider them upon
the lamp as representing the same ideas or cult
as upon the plaques. In the centre is a winged