An Illustrated Dictionary of Words used in Art and Archaeology / Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations.

by John W. Mollett

Phenicine. An indigo purple pigment.

Fig. 543. Pheon.

Pheon, Her. A pointed spear-head borne with the point in base. (Boutell.) “The peon, or pheon, was a barbed javelin; the heads of these are still heraldic bearings, and from their figure, we find the barbs escalloped, or invecked as the heralds term it, aside.” (Meyrick.)

Pheretrum. (See Feretrum.)

Phiala, Phialê, Gr. (φιάλη). The Greek term synonymous with the Latin Patera. But Jacquemart says, “Quant à la phiale, sorte de petite bouteille qui nous a donné le mot fiole; elle figure assez souvent dans les mains des divinités.”

Fig. 544. Part of the Frieze of the temple of Apollo Epicurius near Phigalia.

Phigalian Marbles. Friezes in the Hellenic room of the British Museum, from a temple to Apollo Epicurius, near the ancient Phigalia in Arcadia. There are twenty-three slabs in high relief, eleven representing the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapithæ, and the rest the contest of the Greeks and Amazons. They are attributed to the same period as the Parthenon, but are considered inferior in style and workmanship. (Fig. [544].)

Philactery. (See Phylactery.)